--this is beautiful and so important to me. I don't know about least and most, but I dearly believe that you can come into relation with a place without having been born there and without having someone in your genetic past you can point to who does.

Yes. "Least" got into it because A Canterbury Tale does such a matter-of-fact job of decoupling land-love from any kind of biological inheritance that I didn't think about it for years, it seemed so reasonable and natural to me. It's one of the pieces of the film that clicked into place with the discovery that it was so personal for Pressburger. I am the most geographically stable of my family in three or four generations and I had to build so much of my affinity with the place where I was born. I was raised to carry home with me, independent of landscape.