The same address can be a destination, a departure, and a place someone avoids naming.

A single location holds incompatible meanings depending on who is speaking. The same house is where one person is going, where another left from, and a place a third person will not say out loud, and none of these accounts corrects the others. Places are made of relationships rather than coordinates.

Remember that when a place comes up in conversation, especially a family home or a hometown. Someone’s silence about it may be carrying a great deal. Ask what somewhere was like for them rather than assuming your version, and let their answer be different from what the address means to you.