Where people live is home. Why is a house where no one lives a home?

I bought a house in the county for the convenience of my children to go to school.

Inadvertently, the child grew up, stayed at school, and only came back on weekends. A house without children feels empty. So I returned to the countryside. When children come back from vacation, they naturally go home with adults, and the houses in the city become furnishings.

Sometimes when I am free, I just wander around the houses in the city. When I meet an acquaintance, the most frequently asked sentence is: Are you back? Haven't seen you for a long time. Where have you been? I always feel a little sick. I just came, not came back. Subconsciously, the home that has lived in the country for a long time is home. Houses that haven't lived for a long time are seriously unpopular, and they haven't felt at home after living for a long time.

My friends laughed at me: you are great! Hundreds of thousands of houses are idle! Not bad money!

Not bad money? The answer is no!

In fact, I also thought about renting the house, but I was afraid that if I met a tenant with low quality, it would be a mess, and the money for reinstallation might be more than that rent. In that case, the loss outweighs the gain.

In TV dramas and novels, those rich people buy real estate everywhere. My understanding is just a house, not a home. A house where people live can be regarded as a home, and a house where no one lives can only be called a house at best. Some people have a home, but no one has a home.