I have not yet read the post as the site is down but this is a common story.
1. excitement about being in a new country
2. isolation being an outsider
3. connection, friends
4. Torn between 2 places
I've seen that repeated in many blogs from expats. Lots of them go back home at step 2. I'm at step 4. I left the country I had been in for 7 years to go back home. I know longer feel like either is really my home and miss both for various reasons. I still have way more friends in the foreign country than I do at home. But those first few years were pretty lonely.
I'm just about to make the same jump. I will leave behind some dear friends, but there was definitely a lonely start.
And I really feel like I need to leave the country I'm in right now. But I go to a place I've never been before, so there will be some loneliness there too, for sure.
I have not yet read the post as the site is down but this is a common story.
1. excitement about being in a new country
2. isolation being an outsider
3. connection, friends
4. Torn between 2 places
I've seen that repeated in many blogs from expats. Lots of them go back home at step 2. I'm at step 4. I left the country I had been in for 7 years to go back home. I know longer feel like either is really my home and miss both for various reasons. I still have way more friends in the foreign country than I do at home. But those first few years were pretty lonely.