1. You can’t physically be there for people.
Sure, you can send happy birthday texts or FaceTime to catch up on everything that’s happening in your siblings’ lives, but you’re not going to be in the audience for your friends’ show next month, you can’t hug your bestie when she’s had a bad week, and you wish you could just take a few impromptu trips home because of this.
2. Planning time to see your friends when you’re home is a mission.
Let’s be real, having everyone’s schedules work out so that your squad from high school can hang at least once while you’re home for a week is about as rare as the planets aligning. Add to that the fact that your family is also trying to spend time with you while you’re on school breaks and you’ll be wishing you could clone yourself instead.
3. Your new friends don’t ~get~ some things the way people back home did.
It’s one thing to talk about the greatest supermarket in the world when you’re with other people from home, but try to talk about Publix to anyone else and you’ll just get weird looks while they try to figure out why you’re so impressed by a supermarket chain.
4. Facebook event notifications are constantly taunting you.
Thanks for telling me about this cool event near me that two of my friends are going to, Facebook. Except that event’s no longer near me because I’m about 439508443 miles away from home for most of the year.
5. Your parents don’t understand that your new city is home for you now too.
To them, your home will always be the city where they are and where you grew up. Call the city you live in most of the year “home” in front of them and it’s like you just told them you no longer love them. On some level they understand that you have a life at school that you can’t have back home, but arguing that it is just as much your home as where they live is a giant headache that’s hardly worth the effort.