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Expat Meme

2007-07-17

I found this meme on Avoiding Crisis: 210 Days of Self-Exploration.

Name five things you love in your new country

1. My Friends
2. No coffee to go
3. More cultural events than you can wave a stick at
4. How technology hasn’t completely isolated people
5. Late nights

Name four things you miss from your native country

1. My family and friends
2. My sense of balance and stablity
3. My ability to communicate
4. Neighborhood restaurants with spicy “international” food (mexican, thai, indian, etc.)

Name three things that annoy you in your new country

1. No bike lanes
2. Relative expense of technology
3. The garantia system of renting apartments

Name two things that surprise you (or surprised you when you arrived) in your new country

1. Everyone has little dogs
2. The fashion

Name one thing you would miss in your new country if you had to leave

1. Kissing on the cheek