Florida and Ontario are very different, but they are both very beautiful places.
Obviously there are things about Florida I love, and will miss. There are things about Ontario I'm looking forward to seeing again. I love both places.
I've lived in Florida for years. I met and married my husband here. My children were born and raised here. I love my house. I have some very good friends here.
Florida is familiar to me, but I'm not from here. I'm a local and an outsider in Florida simultaneously.
I feel like a local because Florida is so familiar to me.
I feel like an outsider because the current anti-immigrant sentiment has made me feel I don't belong here.
Ontario is where I'm from, but I'm no longer familiar with it, or how life is in Ontario. I don't have any family left in Ontario (I was a late life baby, and my family are all deceased now). I don't (yet) know a single person in Guelph.
I get to be a newcomer and a native from Ontario all at the same time. It's quite a paradox.
The reasons for our move to Ontario (there are many reasons, and most of you know why), are good. We just cannot stay in Florida.
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