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what do you miss most from back home?
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morningsoju



Joined: 20 Aug 2011
Location: Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:13 am    Post subject: what do you miss most from back home? Reply with quote

although i really like living in Korea, there are a lot of things i miss from back home (other than friends and family).

- i'm from Southern California, so i miss the sunny days all year round
- In-n-Out burgers
- good/authentic mexican food
- sandwich deli meat
- Chik-filet
- guacamole
- big parks with lots of grass and trees
- BBQ cookouts
- watching NBA and NFL games
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Dodge7



Joined: 21 Oct 2011

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how many times is this topic going to pop up?
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Mix1



Joined: 08 May 2007

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The occasional calm and silence.
Lack of pushing or bumping.
Normal sized dogs.
Concrete Sidewalks.
Lawns.
No K-pop anywhere.
Clean air.
Good Mexican Food.
Good Italian Food.
Multiculture.
Insulated walls.
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tardisrider



Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dodge7 wrote:
how many times is this topic going to pop up?


As many times as people miss stuff from home and want to write about it.
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NYC_Gal 2.0



Joined: 10 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I miss my sister.

EDIT: Just noticed you said besides friends and family. Hm. I miss macro vegan bento boxes at health food shops (I'm not a vegan, but they're tasty) and brown rice sushi.


Last edited by NYC_Gal 2.0 on Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:24 am; edited 1 time in total
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Sister Ray



Joined: 25 Mar 2006
Location: Fukuoka

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Record shops.
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Modernist



Joined: 23 Mar 2011
Location: The 90s

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Historic buildings and charming neighborhoods
Public libraries
Portillo's, Potbelly, Chipotle
Normal pizza
Snickers bars that taste right
Target
Parks
English as a day-to-day language
So many others...
Quote:
Concrete Sidewalks.

God, yes. Almost forgot what those looked like. How about curbs in parking lots?
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schwa



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Modernist wrote:

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Concrete Sidewalks.

God, yes. Almost forgot what those looked like.

Be careful what you wish for. The relative absence of jackhammer noise is nice.

Lawnmowers too.
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austinmc86



Joined: 23 Feb 2010

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Beaches
Vegas
Mexican food
concerts/shows
In-N-Out
English
Diversity
Car
Good weather
Ben and Jerry's
Football games
Road trips
Taco Bell (don't live in Seoul)
Reese's
Being paid on time
Suburbs
Grass/yards
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Swampfox10mm



Joined: 24 Mar 2011

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After 10 years here.... pretty much everything.
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cdninkorea



Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ben and Jerry's ice cream (it was here in 2005, but gone at the beginning of 2007).

The absence of people spitting all over the place; on the street, in the subway terminal, and so on (yes, some people spit in Canada too, but not in the middle of a downtown city like you see in downtown Seoul).
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NohopeSeriously



Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good pizza
Good Indian restaurants
Good Chinese restaurants
Good Middle Eastern restaurants
Good Russian restaurants
Decent fish and chip places

French TV shows
Listening to Cantonese, Urdu, Somali, Lebanese Arabic or Egyptian Arabic (It was a daily thing for me)
Hilarious Alberta-related jokes
Cat-friendly people
Parks
Lack of military-ish tensions (I'm absolutely sick of seeing uniform-wearing soldiers near the metro station)
My family in Montreal and Ottawa
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mike in brasil



Joined: 09 Jun 2003

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I miss being round fellow Mericans.

These locals are pucked in the head.
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madoka



Joined: 27 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mike in brasil wrote:
I miss being round fellow Mericans.


I read your post too fast and thought you said:

"I miss round fellow Mexicans." Laughing
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jfromtheway



Joined: 20 Nov 2010

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

English
Southern BBQ
Mary Jane
Pizza by the slice
Hot weather
Not being asked how old I am before someone asks what my name is
HBO
Cheap wine
Lesser amounts of old people strolling around everywhere
People who adopt a random foreign culture as their own, because they're limited in mental scope and state of mind, merely to make up for their own personal shortcomings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLkdhXIij0

Like Swampfox said, pretty much everything.
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