Home becomes obvious when being away changes the meaning of returning.

You often cannot see what a place is to you while you are inside it. Distance does the work: the way you feel on the journey back, what you look forward to, what you dread. Returning turns out to be a better test than staying, and it tells you things about belonging that no amount of reflection at home would reveal.

Notice what happens in you as you approach a place you are returning to. Relief, tightening, a sense of arrival. That reaction is honest and worth taking seriously.