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Apr 2019
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Ep. 53 - Mental Stages to Expect When Mo...

Jesse Sweed
About this episode

Are you planning to live abroad? Have you recently moved abroad to live in another country? Jesse wants to share some of his experiences and observations of living abroad. This experience is different for everybody, but there are some common mental stages that we go through as ex-pats living in another country. 

First, we have the honeymoon stage. This is where we love everything and think that this country does everything better than our home country. 

Then, as the honeymoon stage wears off, we start seeing all of the faults in the new country and we can get annoyed by these and miss our own country.

After a while, we start finding that balance and see the beauty, the pros and cons of each place. This balance just becomes more and more clear over time. Of course not everybody finds this balance, but this is a goal, and the sooner we can find this balance, the better our traveling and living abroad experience can be.

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