By: B.E.Van Bel

B.E.Van Bel — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:11:46 +0000

What LIV states above is very true even if you’ve grown accustom to your surroundings and the people…There is just no way of avoiding or getting arount it….There is no Utopia…..

By: B.E.Van Bel

B.E.Van Bel — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:07:36 +0000

I can totally agree with you being out of the U.S for over 16 YEARS myself now reaching year 17 by September but quite a while ago staying away for the first time for 1 year in Central America…I know the feeling but it really doesn’t bother me as it would others since I grew up in an immigrant Italian family and the language was spoken daily…Where I grew up everyone was exposed to the up and comming latin communities also and the folks entering the U.S. to farm or….Their children of my generation were allowed to attend public schools and so it became normal but for anyone else who has not had that type of exposure I’m sure I’d find the person in a very sad state of affairs especially if the individual was an out going type or family man who was transplanted in a particular country due to employment as many thousands are..I do believe however that on the net that there must be expat groups listed for the country one is staying in and or the local news papers may have some notices posted…One of the biggest issues and why people feel left out or alone is definately the language barrier and when you start to learn the native language then at that time the expat will start feeling better about not only Him/Herself but a feeling of belonging partially to the country will start to take affect…For me personally although the country I’m in I know is not my country of origin but over the years it has grown into feeling like everything is normal and that I belong and I am married to a national so that within itself makes matters easiar however not the case for everyone..I think that Expatify.com is an excellent forum of information for all expats and hope the readers are many so to share all the valuable feed back and experiences will make a big difference for those who are still in a fog about living in a foreign country…..end

By: Liv

Liv — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:22:06 +0000

Everyone is different but I think that loneliness is a part of expat life that we all deal with in alternate ways.
I definitely agree that paradise doesn’t look for paradise for long if you have nobody to share it with.

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