A question for all EX-PATRIOTS (wherever you are, wherever you´re from)?
What are the biggest differences between the life / culture of where you live now, and of "home"?
Is there anything you find better, anything worse?
Do you want to return "home" to live?
Update:OOPS - yes, I really meant "EXPATRIATES"!!!!!!
(See what living abroad is doing to me??!! ha ha!)
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Where I live now is much smaller than my own country. There aren't as many fun places to go, and people's minds are just as small as the place itself. It can be really restricting.
Plus, everyone is annoyingly laidback with the important things and fussy about the unimportant things. They drive anyhow, they "park" anyhow, and you have to wait ten to fifteen minutes extra for the utilities clerk to finish her discussion on the party last night or receive an update on what her friend's kids are doing now, before you can pay your electricity or water bill. The same goes for the supermarket cashier.
I would have already gone crazy, except for the fact that I go home as often as possible. I try to spend as much as three months (cumulatively) in my own country each year. I end up spending as much as US$3000 per year on airfare, but it's worth it!
First off, "ex-patriot" is vastly different from "expatriate". Gauging that you mean the latter, I would have to say that I really miss my personal space where I live now. That, and certain cultural mores which I'm expected to keep up as a woman. This place is sort of stuck in the 1950s in terms of societal standards and attitudes. I could go on for about the length of a novel on this, but in a nutshell, those are the reasons why I want to move--not necessarily back "home" (I would not ever want to move back to my hometown anyway) but somewhere where I don't feel as constrained. I know moving somewhere else can bring along a whole host of new problems, but in the places where I'm considering moving, I feel as if those are issues that I could handle better than those with which I have to deal now.
i am originally from the state of West Virginia.it is called the mountain state because that is what it is.lived there for 40 years.then i got crazy, got online, found a woman, and moved to her country. the Ukraine.this place is like Ohio, except Ohio was probably like this 60 years ago.most people here a drunk white trash.nothing but 10 story high rise buildings everywhere.almost no houses, except for the real countryside.public transportation a must.their trains run about 40mph, so it takes 8-9 hours to travel 250 miles.in a word this place sucks. iwould not recommend packing up and leaving the states for anywhere else.