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naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

I can't even count how many times I've been asked this questions. SO whatever you consider to be home. Are you ever going back?

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Yes, I believe I'll go back home one day, but that might be 5 years or 10 or more, I don't know. The longer you're away from home, the less you miss it and realize how unimportant it is to you. However, after a long time I think I'll feel the need to reconnect with society and family.

donfan · Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 217

I will definitely retire in Australia but will probably work overseas til then, with intermittent six month breaks at home doing casual school teaching, like I have been doing for the last ten years, to maintain my connections here.

I hate when students ask me how long I'm going to be here. I'm never sure whether they're asking coz they want me to stay or they're asking coz they want me to leave. Laughing

richard ame · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 319 Location: Republic of Turkey

Been asked this one more times than I can count the answer is always the same , No never ,ever . I might visit once in blue moon just to touch base with my language and culture than I go back HOME to the place I feel more at peace with ,I'm a lifer that means life to me at least .

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

To visit between contracts, sure.
To stay permanently, not any time soon.

I can't predict the future; if someone had told me back in 1998 that in five years I'd quit my IT job to teach overseas I'd have found it difficult to believe.

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

Obviously, since I'm not a soothsayer, I can't say for certain whether or not I'll move back to the USA someday. My plan is to work a few more years in Mexico and then retire here. The USA is a nice place to visit, but I find Mexico a nicer place to live. Also, it would be more difficult for me to live on my retirement income in the USA than it would be where I am now.

Capergirl · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:10 pm Post subject:

The question for me is am I ever going to get the heck outta here??? Laughing

Actually, I have a great job here which makes it extremely hard to leave. I would love, love, love to work in another country again, though. If I do move away again, the likelihood of returning to Canada is very slim. Confused

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

How do you define home? I can't see myself going back to my country of birth. But I will go back to my adopted home

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

I do plan on going home within a few years. Not to find a "normal" job--I am in this for life too, but I would like to give ESL (or maybe intensive programs for English language students in the States) a try.

I have my heart set on returning to California, but given the job market, who knows how feasible that will be? If I have to choose between staying abroad and teaching in some part of the States that I have no desire to live in, I might just choose to stay away.

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Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Home is what I have made of a place to live and work here - a flat, now my property. So long as there is a little future for people like me left in this country it will be my home. Whenever a job requires me to spend nights on a campus, I feel I am in a new and potentially dangerous place, and long to get home.
My home is not a castle - nice neighbours don't burgle it.

struelle · Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 2372 Location: Shanghai

joe-joe · Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 100 Location: Baku, Azerbaijan

I'll probably go back to either the UK or Ireland when I'm too old or decrepid to live in foreign climes. I don't have a crystal ball and my Tarot reading skills ain't what they used to be so, I will see how things pan out. Maybe whilst on my travels I find the right place to feel comfortable enough in to call home , wherever that may, then circumstances permitting I'll stay there 'til it's time to plant me in the ground! Smile

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

It is probably going to be harsh realities that take us back to "home" - that island off the coast of Europe Wink

Aging relatives are probably our main concern. Also, if we had kids, secondary schooling would be another. IF we somehow manage to avoid both of those, I think we could be bouncing around the world for quite a while yet. Even if we go back the UK, I don't think either of us would settle in it for long. Once bitten by the wanderbug....

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

Home? There is the house my mother lives in nestled in a small corner of Canada where I'd have a snowball's chance in the House of Hades of getting a decent job. I didn't exactly leave behind a vast estate in the care of my board of trustees. If I go back to Canada, I'll quite literally have whatever I bring with me.

I hadn't planned on it, and I don't see it in the cards for a long time.

Will. · Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 783 Location: London Uk

I am home, I've been here three years. This is the longest I have spent in this or any country for over twenty-five years.
It is scary to think that after being away so long it is almost like going to a new country again. There is much that is familiar and much that has changed but it is easier to integrate into a society with which you are familiar.
Like many of our posters I had not planned to stay but.......