If you had the opportunity to move away to a different country and start life afresh where no one knew you, would you do it?
I’ve been in this position twice, and both times returned home 😕. Though admittedly on the second occasion I was sick and had no choice!
🌃 The first occasion was in the USA. After my job finished there, I wanted to stay there with someone I’d met and try to make a go of a relationship and find a job and so on. After my work visa and accommodation lease expired I spent a month between hostels and YMCAs and in college learning Spanish. But in the end finding work and somewhere to live longer term seemed impossible - plus I had a good job in Scotland to go back to which had been kept open for me. So I bottled out and eventually returned, a bit distraught, to my old job in the UK. I did try to return though, more determined to make a go of if it, and went back in November 2001 to see my friend, and discussed working full time at a university there with my former director. But immediately post 9/11 all deals were off and work visas were impossible to come by.
🌵 The second time I was working in Acapulco in Mexico. I had plans to move to Mexico City to work over the summer and then head to Puebla where a full time position was waiting fir me at the University of Puebla. However in Mexico city I got really sick and had to fly back to the UK to be hospitalised, so that put the Kibosh on those plans!
🌃 The first occasion was in the USA. After my job finished there, I wanted to stay there with someone I’d met and try to make a go of a relationship and find a job and so on. After my work visa and accommodation lease expired I spent a month between hostels and YMCAs and in college learning Spanish. But in the end finding work and somewhere to live longer term seemed impossible - plus I had a good job in Scotland to go back to which had been kept open for me. So I bottled out and eventually returned, a bit distraught, to my old job in the UK. I did try to return though, more determined to make a go of if it, and went back in November 2001 to see my friend, and discussed working full time at a university there with my former director. But immediately post 9/11 all deals were off and work visas were impossible to come by.
🌵 The second time I was working in Acapulco in Mexico. I had plans to move to Mexico City to work over the summer and then head to Puebla where a full time position was waiting fir me at the University of Puebla. However in Mexico city I got really sick and had to fly back to the UK to be hospitalised, so that put the Kibosh on those plans!
