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veen  ·  3308 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Daydreams of leaving

What I learned from living abroad for five months is that

a) every benefit that a country has has an equal and opposite downside.

b) you start to miss a lot of the small things that you take for granted (in my case, real Gouda on real bread)

c) living somewhere is not the same as visiting some place.

Not to say that you shouldn't try to pursue this. But be sure to put on your long-term glasses. Do you still like the place when the weather sucks, your commute is slow and you have to fill in yet another damn form at the municipal office? Because there's gonna be days like that, and on those days your old home seems impossibly far away.