In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, compare Bruno's old home to his new home.

In
, the reader is introduced to this "empty, desolate place" to
which the family has relocated and which does not appeal to Bruno at all. It is a sinister
placethe tragic events that will follow. Bruno loves to explore the house in Berlin with all its
"nooks and crannies" but this house, in "Out-With," is much smaller with
only three storeys, one bathroom, an average ground floor and a basement for the servants. It
seems more like "the loneliest place in the world."

There is an
office in the new house but Bruno never even finished exploring his father's office in their
house in Berlin because it was always "Out Of Bounds At All Times And No Exceptions."
This new office will no doubt have the same restrictions which means that Bruno's play area is
much- diminished. Bruno loves the banister in the old house as he can slide all the way from the
top (fifth) floor to the bottom and the view out of the window at the top - if he stands on his
toes - is very different from the view from his window in the new house. 

Bruno cannot believe that this place is their new home and he thinks that "this
was a bad idea." The house in Berlin is on a quiet street, in a neighborhood with similar
houses and similar people to his own family, plenty of children with whom to be friends or to
clearly stay away from and a familiar . The new house has neither houses nor, consequently,
friends nor "trouble." The house is "in the middle of nowhere." Bruno will
also be far away from his grandparents at the new house as they live close to the old
one.

In the new house, Bruno does nor feel at home, or safe and "no one
looked as if they could ever be cheerful again."