Comments on: Abroad mind

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:49:18 +0000

The more I go abroad (and I travel the world at topspeed), the more I think that it really doesn’t matter where you live, people are more or less the same everywhere. They want the same things (love, freedom, money) and are equally annoying, funny, happy and/or depressed everywhere, regardless even of the circumstances they live in (although real poverty does make a difference, then life becomes survival). The question is, what makes you feel ‘at home’, is it friends, language, family, cultural familiarity? Atmosphere, housing, food? As for me, I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, I have no sense of adventure that makes me want to go for the ‘unknown’, that probably is strangely familiar anyway. But be sure that if you do move to say, Dublin, I’ll be around for annoying amounts of time ;)

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:31:30 +0000

I’m from Dublin, moved to Scotland, then to the US, then back to Scotland, and now in the US again. If you want to do it, you *can* (probably – I know that’s presumptuous). Houses *are* stupidly expensive in Dublin, but rent is no more than any other city from what I’ve seen. I know that renting might not be sustainable, but hell, what IS? Take a few years there, maybe?

By: sandra

sandra — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:44:09 +0000

I lived all my youth in Germany, than as an Au Apir two years in France (near ¨Paris) and then finally arrived in Brussles as a Au pair and then made a school to be able to stay. I live here now since 87
Its great in one way but after all this years I still miss Hannover as there are my friends and family

By: ghani

ghani — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:07:43 +0000

In my experience, if you did it once, the bug would just get worse. I’ve moved to Scotland from the U.S., and though I love Edinburgh, I keep feeling like I should uproot again and live somewhere else for a year or two. It’s quite frustrating!