If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return.
There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of Canaan, to his father Isaac.
but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.’
Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.