I came here after a long time because I am overthinking it on a more regional level. I had a discussion with my friends about patriotism and almost everyone came to a conclusion that they relate to a smaller area as a homeland more than to the entire country, so I think that I can apply it too.
My history homework mentioned "the place you come from" and I didn't know what is it. The place where I was born, that has nothing to do with anything but stays in my papers forever, no matter where I move? The place where I have lived for my entire life, even though it doesn't always feel like home? The place where I go to school, which is the furthest from living there but sometimes I have to oversimplify that it's where I live?
I don't fully consider them the place where I come from because I don't come from there if you look at a longer period of time. My parents moved here a few years before I was born and they come from different areas. I follow traditions and quirks from those places, not the one where I live. I used to have problems with understanding people from nearby villages and I understand my mom's relatives even though they sometimes speak another language. One of the ancestral homelands is significantly different from the place where I live and the rest of the country, so it feels so much like another homeland.
And finally the spiritual ones. There are so many places that feel like home even though I've been there only a few times. (Trying to explain to that cute burrito seller that you actually don't live there, you're only on a school trip and you want to come back one day but you live so far away).
It's so complicated.