For people who move to a foreign country (and it's usually a ~ cosmopolitan~ city at that) and then eventually move back citing "cultural differences" - like what differences are that stark that you can't live with them? Oh no the people there grew up with different stories than I did how can we get along? I'm i being too "I'm built different"? Is it a dog whistle for racism? What's up with it?
I dated a girl that had to move back to Australia because she was diagnosed with cancer and the American Healthcare system would of left her in debt for the rest of her life. Not sure if that counts.
That's fair. As is the implication that excessive medical debt is part of American culture
(Hope she's ok)
Yeah we've actually been talking again recently and she's almost recovered from the radiation treatments.
It can be racism, but sometimes you miss the culture you grew up in, or more oftenly your family.
but then you have to admit to not being the world traveling individualist you claimed to be
Eh, depends quite a bit. I knew Americans that moved to Germany and came back due to "cultural differences". It seemed that some members of the family didn't want to learn a new language and along with more minor differences.
Mine was an experience of a place so isolated, racist & hyper masculine that it actually broke my brain. I left but it wasn't for lack of trying.
I guess using it as a polite euphemism for this kind of thing is valid
Within my home country australia. Remote mining community, apartheid in all but name. The amount of wealth extracted from those areas, the wealth disparity within those areas, the way the hwhites understand it to be the way that it is only because the blackfella hasn't picked himself up by his bootstraps for the past 80yrs
Idk. Places like that are unliveable, which is all well and good when its not your home I guess.
Same here, different country (South Africa) and town and I'm probably here forever. Gotta try make it more livable somehow.
Church/mission born? Those places are cursed and do not have healthy or sustainable presents let alone futures.
At least that's what I tell myself.
To top it all off I'm bi lol.
Still haven't told them, and have no intention to unless I get in a long term relationship with a guy.
Oh yeah, mining towns are brutal. My grandmother still lives in a town that has no access, so you can only fly or boat in. I lucked out because my dad was able to find a house outside of the rez when i was a kid.
Sounds like either South Africa, Australia or New Zealand to me.
Ok op confirmed it's Australia
Sounds like my experience working for a traveling carnival.
mayos just use the word "culture" instead of "race" because they feel guilty about being racist
I moved from one side of the country to another and then went back home because people were eating pizza with mayonaise
