What no one tells you about moving to a different country

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• When you move back home after living in a different country, you might feel a sense of homesickness and reverse culture shock.
• Even if you spoke the same language while abroad, your vocabulary can change a lot and others might notice.
• The hardest part is often returning to your home country and realizing how much everything has changed since you left.

Moving to London after college was the easiest decision I’ve ever made. I understand that for most people, packing up and moving 3,400 miles across an ocean might come with a level of apprehension, but for me, it would have been scarier to miss that opportunity.

And it was everything I’d hoped it would be. At the risk of sounding corny, I lived out all of my dreams: I studied at a top fashion school, traveled all over the UK, and fell in love with an Englishman. I fell in love with a city, too. London soon became my city. At the end of two years, I wanted nothing more than to stay. But unfortunately for me, getting a visa to stay in a foreign country is only easy when you’re a student. I was heartbroken to leave a city I’d fallen so deeply in love with and was hit hard with a sense of homesickness and reverse culture shock.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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