Where would you like to live?
Now I must say, that I really don't know, where I would like to live. I think about Berlin, but I have never lived there, I was in Berlin only as a visitor. It's not enough to understand, it's ok to me or not to live there.
Of course, I have doubts, when I think about living abroad. I am really scared to lose my social standing, to lose my professional community. I always work, I never have time without work, never. And I am afraid of not to find a right job, which appropriate to me. Also I am scared of culture shock. Anyone who stays a long time in a foreign country inevitably is going through it. You can feel that your brain don't digest all new information, people, events. It exhausts, because you have to solve many diverse tasks simultaneously. Many people miss their habitual surroundings. They have not the same support network of friends. Many people really miss their family. Furthermore there are many things, which you can ignore, when you are tourist, but when you are living here, you can't disregard it. You should fit in with the way of life here.
Another problem is connected with cultural differences. If you don't know social etiquette of this country, you can put yourself's foot into it. You don't understand jokes in foreign language. In this connection you can just be feeling down. For me it is really important to understand finest details, read between the lines, wordplay. I don't want to lose it. It's the same as losing myself or really important part of myself.
But also it can broadens my horizonts. I would work with those specialist, which I am really interested in. If we are talking about study abroad, I can learn from the very best in their ground professors. It's never easy to start life in foreign country, but I think that it can be a life-changing experience. I can take a stunning baggage: new skills, new experience and an interesting useful connection. Or I can lose everything.
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