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[vre]

This thread is very interesting for me since I am in my 8th year away (I know, not long compared to many posters) but I'm starting to get really a longing to go back home.

But I know friends who have gone back home and have found it really hard to get a job, or a decent one anyway.

So your opinions and experiences are appreciated very much.

[moonraven]

I have been away from my home country for almost 13 years now. I have no desire to go back there to live.

But for those of you who get the urge to go back home, why not do what I do: go back for a short visit? That should be enough to cure you....

[distiller]

I am not generally inclined to agree with the raven but in this case I do. I haven't lived in my home country for about six years or so. Given my age that is a considerable percentage of my lifetime. I go back occasionally but only for visits, as I am doing tomorrow for the first time in 32 months, and it usually hits me on the freeway back home while passing gigantic Americans in their gigantic inefficient cars why I don't live there. Obviously, I go back for family, friends, In-n-Out and Roscos's but the general climate of consumption and voluntary anti-intellectualism is mind numbing. There are plenty of alternatives and there is no reason to paint everyone with the same brush but the current popular trends are worrying. To be honest with myself, those same trends are prevalent around the globe but it is somehow more personally disheartening when it is your home. Perhaps we feel a sense of complicity.

[juststeven]

Oh, the luxury of youth. Once you no longer have mommy and daddy to call upon, perhaps your attitude will change

[distiller]

Oooh, how cryptic. What exactly does my mother or father have to do with anything? And what attitude is going to change and how? As far as the luxury of youth, I think you'll recall my salary is source of most of that.