Leaving all possessions behind and just going with one suitcase
In the new country I needed to get a flat and buy all the things again. Unsurprisingly doing it a couple of times made me some kind of the opposite of a hoarder. I barely buy anything anymore because I have to assume that I will need to either store it which is very expensive or throw it away one I move to the next country again, which I basically have to assume after so many times.
Leaving all friends and family behind
That is the hardest thing, once you’re out of school and university it’s quite difficult to find new friends and not only aquienticies. And leaving grandparents, uncles, cousins and even parents and siblings behind is very hard too. So you have to somehow in the new country find a replacement family.
Leaving job behind
This is not such a big deal, but finding a job in the new country where you don’t speak the language yet is tricky. Sometimes you have to switch careers too.
I’m sorry but I have to correct your spelling of acquaintances.
But otherwise that sounds very difficult. I have had the experience of having to leave possessions behind and living out of a suitcase at times, but to leave behind my family and friends and also have to learn a foreign language is on a whole nother level of challenge/adventurousness.
To be fair, nowadays it’s not as extreme as before the Internet. When we left from Poland to Germany it was really like if we left for another world. We would visit once a year or so, but nobody in Poland had a phone and writing letters yeah it’s ok but you don’t really do that often.
Now with the internet I’m in contact with my parents through video calls at least once a week, sometimes more often. We share pictures and videos, etc. so it feels that we are much closer between Korea and Germany compared to Germany and Poland back then.
Yeah that makes sense, the internet really helps with that. For a romantic relationship, long-distance is still not that great. But for your parents and family, it can actually work out pretty well, because a lot of times it’s kind of nice to have some distance anyway. Depending on your relationship with your family.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by “starting from scratch every time”?
Leaving all possessions behind and just going with one suitcase
In the new country I needed to get a flat and buy all the things again. Unsurprisingly doing it a couple of times made me some kind of the opposite of a hoarder. I barely buy anything anymore because I have to assume that I will need to either store it which is very expensive or throw it away one I move to the next country again, which I basically have to assume after so many times.
Leaving all friends and family behind
That is the hardest thing, once you’re out of school and university it’s quite difficult to find new friends and not only aquienticies. And leaving grandparents, uncles, cousins and even parents and siblings behind is very hard too. So you have to somehow in the new country find a replacement family.
Leaving job behind
This is not such a big deal, but finding a job in the new country where you don’t speak the language yet is tricky. Sometimes you have to switch careers too.
I’m sorry but I have to correct your spelling of acquaintances.
But otherwise that sounds very difficult. I have had the experience of having to leave possessions behind and living out of a suitcase at times, but to leave behind my family and friends and also have to learn a foreign language is on a whole nother level of challenge/adventurousness.
To be fair, nowadays it’s not as extreme as before the Internet. When we left from Poland to Germany it was really like if we left for another world. We would visit once a year or so, but nobody in Poland had a phone and writing letters yeah it’s ok but you don’t really do that often.
Now with the internet I’m in contact with my parents through video calls at least once a week, sometimes more often. We share pictures and videos, etc. so it feels that we are much closer between Korea and Germany compared to Germany and Poland back then.
Yeah that makes sense, the internet really helps with that. For a romantic relationship, long-distance is still not that great. But for your parents and family, it can actually work out pretty well, because a lot of times it’s kind of nice to have some distance anyway. Depending on your relationship with your family.