Meaning of Home

I have moved 3 times, and the second house did not feel like home but when we moved to north Vancouver it really felt like home The first home was nice, but it was really small, we lived in an apartment in Vancouver on a busy street. I had friends that lived in a house across the street and when their flush pipe exploded, they moved. I basically lived there most of my life we left when I was 7. I started kindergarten than we moved. My parents found a town home in north Vancouver, but it wasn't built yet, the people who were buying our house wanted our apartment right away so they said they would pay 200$ more to have it right away so my parents said yes. We had nowhere to live because our town home was taking a long time to be built. So, my grandparents that lived in Burnaby said we can live in their back yard, so we had just enough money to rent a trailer it was a really nice trailer, but the bathroom stank. I would alternate sleeping in the house and in the trailer. I was already going to my new school in north van so every day my dad would drive there, and it was like a 30-minute drive. 1 year past and our town home was almost done being built. we spent Christmas in Burnaby and after that we moved to north Vancouver. I had a friend who was moving right next door so when I started school, I wouldn't be lonely. Once we spent a month in our new house it really felt like a home that we can live in for a long time. My school was right across the street, so it was perfect. After a year in our new house, we got a dog named lucy, now it really feels like a home. The difference between a house and a home is that a house feels like something you live in, somewhere you sleep, something where you stay, like my apartment. A home is somewhere you thrive in, somewhere your family lives in, somewhere that you can live in for a long time like my family's town home.