tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577656858339147916.post7887780904064662981..comments2023-06-16T16:42:16.179+01:00Comments on Expat Mum in Portugal: Where can an expat call 'Home'Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15910447113358477823noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577656858339147916.post-12788304839394546632012-05-02T12:18:16.949+01:002012-05-02T12:18:16.949+01:00Good topic to raise Christine and interesting arti...Good topic to raise Christine and interesting article.<br />I love this quote<br />"Live where you are planted, or plant yourself where you are living. Such is the life of the long-term expat. We need to learn to live with uncertainty. We must use the ability to adapt and be flexible, required characteristics of all successful expats, to be at home and make a home wherever we are."<br />It is very hard to go back to anywhere (or any situation); as you comment things have always changed and more importantly our new experiences have shaped and developed us too. We are not who we were.<br />Where we come from will always feel "safe" particularly with our native language, places which are familiar and the close proximity of family and friends. However I have experienced being viewed differently when I visit my old home (mainly friends and family who don't quite get the "why" of living abroad). <br />My own feeling is that once you become an expat you are in for a serial life of being an expat!Costawomenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08049255783396892327noreply@blogger.com