May 12, 2009

Living in A Foreign Country

It is always great to live or work in other countries, but will you forever like it.

Living in a foreign country can be fun and exciting as you able to see a different places, culture, people, and lifestyle. It is an opportunity to see the country attractive places that make it different from the home country. You also can meet and making friend with foreigner to understand their culture and even foreign language. When living in a foreign country, the usual lifestyle also need to change in order to adapt the country, some countries, the pace is fast and some focus on quality of life which the pace is slower. This will eventually give you a new perception in looking things and add to your life experiences.

However being in a foreign country maybe difficult as well. You need to change and adapt to an entire new life: place, people, lifestyle, and language. Not only that, you need to leave or left behind the things you own or love in the home country including family, friend, house, assets, etc. This is not an easy decision to be made. At foreign country, cultural shock always happen, you may need to adapt to a lifestyle that you not always encounter in your home country and you may need to adapt on something that you may not agreed on. Racism also can occur in any country especially you are a foreigner and from a country that people will tend to have a bad perception on.

When you look at the pro and con of living or working in a foreign country, it is not easy to determine which is the best option. However it is really very exciting to live in a foreign country and see new things but you need to make some big changes in your life to adapt the foreign country. It is important to determine whether you happy or not if you look at those pro and con.

1 comment:

Vincent said...

Good statement...
Basically, I won't think anyone who wish to leave their house, friend, assets, etc by going oversea to work. At the end of the day, we'll found that it just a process.....In order to fast adapt into foreign country, mentality become a guideline in our life.... Cheers friend, we have same point of view...