Home becomes noticeable after distance teaches what familiarity concealed.

While you are inside it, home is invisible. The particular light, the rhythm of the streets, the way people speak to strangers: all of it reads as simply how things are. Only distance turns it into one option among many, and only then can you see what you had been standing in.

This is a reason to go somewhere different occasionally even if you plan to come back. You will return knowing what you actually value about where you live, which makes staying a decision rather than a default.