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What is means to be an expatriate and live as one?
Expatriate life can be exciting, rewarding, amazing, surprising and thrilling at best. It can also be boring, lonely, annoying and even frightening.
Usually it is something in between. You get to see new places and new faces, get to know some of those faces better and learn the person behind it,
eat new and unfamiliar food, try to cope with foreing language on spoken and written level just to name a few.
Valid visas & passports
These are the most important single issues affecting your entry to the target country. If you don't have appropriate visa in order you simply will not be permitted to enter...
How will your life change?
This is the hardest question of them all. Read more from here what to expect and what might happen.
After the move
What we have experienced after moving abroad is priceless, the things we have done, the people met, the food eaten and the places seen. None of this would have not happened had we stayed at our old place and just continued onwards on our path. Our feelings have been ranging from absolute nirvana to the deepest depression and all the feelings in between.
Living abroad can be full of surprises
How did you like that chili again?
Was it too hot? No? Here, let me add some more! Even if the language spoken is familiar and culturewise you feel at home as well, food might make the difference. Same dishes with seemingly same ingredients might be tasteless or horribly overpowering to your own taste depending on what you have grown used to. Especially in hot areas of Asia dishes have been traditionally pretty spicy to make them edible for a long time as hot and humid temperatures can spoil especially meaty food quite fast. If you thought that your local Indian curries were hot, please let me recommend Sichuan kitchen and all its offerings. Just remember to reserve fire extinguisher next to you...
Find extreme differences from the country you are living
You do not have to move overseas to find extreme differences and living conditions. At least both Australia and China offer such intercountry diversity that sometimes it is hard to believe that you're staying in the same country all the time. For example moving from north to south or from east to west in China basically changes everything, from weather and landscape to language spoken, food eaten and cultural habits. In Australia this is also true in a smaller scale excluding the language, alhtough dialects can get a bit confusing sometimes. So in some cases you can be an expatriate in your own country!