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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Most people when I tell them I left all my friends and family to move to the UK to study and hopefully settle down, always think it's a really brave thing to do.
So my question is this, can you ever see yourself moving abroad to live somewhere, leaving your friends and family behind? (btw when I say family I don't mean kids under the age of 20, or your spouse) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I missed a chance to study somewhere very exotic as a young’un and regret it.
I can see myself doing something like it one day when the kids are settled |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Could have done so a couple of times. Had the chance to take a great job in the US or buy an apartment complex / holiday let business in the Alps. Sometimes regret not doing so. Sometimes glad we didn't.
But at our age now don’t see the point as settled and gave roots.
So I do think it takes a certain bravery, confidence or lack of roots to up sticks and start over.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Could have done so a couple of times. Had the chance to take a great job in the US or buy an apartment complex / holiday let business in the Alps. Sometimes regret not doing so. Sometimes glad we didn't.
But at our age now don’t see the point as settled and gave roots.
So I do think it takes a certain bravery, confidence or lack of roots to up sticks and start over.
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Yea I was fortunate enough to not have a gf/fiance/wife or kids despite being in my 30s lol so yea it was very easy for me to leave |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Most people when I tell them I left all my friends and family to move to the UK to study and hopefully settle down, always think it's a really brave thing to do.
So my question is this, can you ever see yourself moving abroad to live somewhere, leaving your friends and family behind? (btw when I say family I don't mean kids under the age of 20, or your spouse) "
Yes. I will move to Greece within the next 10 years. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Moved the kids and wife at the time to the USA, had a great time . Only the business ballsing up H visa applications cost me staying out there otherwise I’d never have come back .
Maybe too late to move again, but she’s now thankfully an ex and the kids are adults, so never say never
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I would move to the UK in a heartbeat.
My kids are married, I’d long term lease out my home and finally do something for myself for a change.  "
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I absolutely would. Nothing keeping me here that I can't get in a new place.
I'd love to move somewhere I already know a bit of the language though.
And definitely somewhere warmer!!"
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Nope. I've been offered jobs in the US and Mexico, one in Spain. I seriously considered Mexico City, went over there as a trial.
I hated being away from my family and my support network. It's fine for a month or two but no longer. I have roots here, I have my life here and there's nothing any other place could give me that would compensate for what I'd be giving up. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I would love to move somewhere warm all year around,but its not the right time yet ,fair play to you and anyone else with the balls to do it "
Thanks and yea a little over 2 years, despite numerous challenges and still going strong |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Do do it. It opens up the world. But there is a cost too.
Me native English speaker, spent most of my adult life outside my birth country. Can seemlessly switch languages/cultures traveling through multiple countries. It's rich. It give a depth many never know or even know exists.
But now, and I've heard this before from others. I have no roots, I belong nowhere. I can drop into multiple countries and go native but I've lost that connection of total ignorance...
Go for opportunities, there will be cost but also rewards. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I left behind family and friends and familiarity.
I didn't have the most supportive family, so the choice was right for me as my daughter desperately needs good humans around her.
I'd love to go back to the UK, but sometimes you've just got to these things if it's the best thing to do. |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
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I think I could move abroad. It is something I have often thought about and opening a coffeeshop somewhere, in Europe.
The world is such a small place now thanks to low cost carriers.
I don't think my kids would mind as one of them lives abroad. |
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