Place is defined as a “meaningful location” (Creswell 7). A place is a stationary location that remains the same while everything else around you may be changing. Home is a great example of place. As we live our day-to-day lives, home is a place everyone can relate to as a meaningful location or comfort zone to always return to. All the events, memories and family that are in a home are what make it meaningful to a person and transforms the house into a home, or place. Once a specific location is given meaning, we are able to then call that location a place.  The connection to a specific location is what makes it a place.

Place in America has the tendency to reveal facts about us individually, as well as the people around us. The exact location of where a person lives in America can also make a different on their idea of place because, for example, a southerner would most definitely look or think about a place differently than a northerner may. The sense of security an American feels in certain places is also important. Being familiar with your surroundings, people, town, etc., brings that sense of comfort which makes that certain location “a place” in the eyes of that specific person.