Grazia speaks to women who can't 'go home' this Christmas, because they don't have a family home.
All over the UK, there are currently people dragging suitcases and Tesco Bags for Life full of presents, back to their family homes for a few days of emotional regression and fights about Quality Street.
‘Are you excited to go home for Christmas?’ I asked a friend of a friend at a party recently. ‘I’m not going home,’ they replied. ‘We don’t really have a family home, to be honest.’ ‘I moved around the UK as a kid’ says Sophie, 25*, ‘so honestly I don’t have a special connection to anywhere. I go back to wherever my parents are currently living, and rent an airbnb close to them. Sometimes it’s Scotland, sometimes it’s Liverpool, one time it was the Isle of Wight. I don’t get that whole “driving home for Christmas” mentality, it’s more about having a couple of days with my brothers and sisters, wherever my parents have ended up.
‘My family home burned down earlier this year,’ she says, ‘so my parents decided it was time to try doing Christmas apart. We’re all trying to be cheerful about it, saying what a great adventure it’s going to be. When I booked to go out for lunch in central London on Christmas Day with a friend, I thought it was going to be amazing - a very Sex and the City Christmas. But as it’s getting closer I keep having dreams about waking up in my own bed at home and being with my sisters.
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