Sometimes belonging begins when you know which floorboard makes noise.

Familiarity of the smallest sort is what belonging is made of. Which floorboard creaks, which tap runs hot slowly, where the light switch is in the dark. These details cannot be acquired quickly and they are the actual substance of feeling at home, more than any decision or declaration about the place.

Give a new place enough ordinary time to accumulate details like these. Do not judge it in the first months. Belonging is a slow deposit and cannot be rushed by trying.