Maybe “your own city” would be a more precise metaphor than “your own house”. Your country is your house, but the EU is the city around it, with the roads, infrastructure, shared rules, market, security, and institutions that make the house function.

The concept of a modern nation is also relatively new. It emerged as an identity for groups of people who were no longer defined mainly by the monarchs ruling over them. That identity replaced the king as the symbol of belonging.

But now nationalism is often doing the opposite. Instead of freeing people from old power structures, it is holding Europe back.

So yes, maybe it is not literally “your house”, but the point still stands. Burning down the city around your house is not exactly a smart move either.