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The longer you live abroad, the more you realize you’ll always be a bit of an outsider, no matter where you are.
Caterina • The 10 Biggest Lessons I Learned from Living in 5 Different Countries During My 20s
Now… they resolved to go back to their own land; because the years have a kind of emptiness when we spend too many of them on a foreign shore. But… if we do return, we find that the native air has lost its invigorating quality, and that life has shifted its reality to the spot where we have deemed ourselves only temporary residents. Thus, between t
... See moreBarry Eisler • A Clean Kill in Tokyo
Once you move overseas, you slowly, without noticing at first, start to develop a new struggle around your identity that you didn’t know existed before. Before your move, you had simple answers to questions such as “Where are you from?” and “Where’s home for you?”
Camille Armantrout • Once Upon an Expat
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