Fallen Dragon, Peter F. Hamilton

It's just that nowhere you live can ever be exotic. That's only ever somewhere else.

p. 94

This reminds me of a quote from Chip Delaney in Stars in My Pockets like Grains of Sand, where Marq Deyth remarks that home is a place you can never go for the first time; you can only return there. The first time, it isn't home yet, although it may come to be home.