[lbo-talk] Hey Mr. bitter expat

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Sep 22 08:25:55 PDT 2005


JC Helary wrote:


>> Leaving one's place is one thing and going back to it or making a
>> second big move another thing.
>
>
> A lot of expats are where they are not so much because they choose to
> but because it was the only possible/reasonable choice at the time.
> Most of the time it was a non-choice.
>
> When you start having a stable situation with adult level relations
> to your environment, like it or not chances are that it's going to
> take a huge amount on energy to change that. And any rational being
> knows that spending that much energy to "move on" is most of the time
> just not worth it and will lead to even more frustrations.

That speaks volumes for me. My (family's) first big move Bucharest - Paris - USA was extremely traumatic. I have thought a lot about emigrating from the U.S. But it would take major devastation for me to find the energy to do that.

Joanna



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