Has anyone ever felt like they belong to a country they never traveled to?

[Jessup2day]

I've always felt a connection to Scotland, even though I've never even been there. I've never even traveled outside my own state, but every time I see something about Scotland the land and the people, my heart feels like it's at home. Maybe I'm stupidly sentimental, or I'm idealizing a country. Whatever it is, it's a feeling that brings me to tears and fills me with pride. It's weird how I can feel pride in a country that's not my own?

[Anonymous]

Once on a flight to london the flight got rerouted to Scotland due to poor weather and the entire flight found ourselves stranded in Glasgow. The cabin crew suggested we all go out and club it. I had no option. It was that or one of their B&Bs. I figured it'd be safer on the streets. For the first time ever I saw the Scotch in their natural habitat, and it weren't pretty. I'd seen them huddling in stations before, being loud but… this time I was surrounded. Everywhere I went it felt like they were watching me; fish-white flesh puckered by the Highland breeze; tight eyes peering out for fresh meat; screechy, booze-soaked voices hollering out for a taxi to take 'em halfway up the road to the next all-night watering hole. A shatter of glass; a round of applause; a sixteen-year-old mother of three vomiting in an open sewer, bairns looking on, chewing on potato cakes. I ain’t never going back… not never.

[glennos89]

I feel that I belong to a deserted island that is as far away from todays human civilization as it can be 😂

[ChicoFromThe305]

Yep Italy

[Simslover92]

Canada for me.