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Yes, five years and counting, and it has been a great experience. I presume that HN being more USA-centric makes the question interesting; but I feel that if y
by pelario 8y ago
Yes, five years and counting, and it has been a great experience.
I presume that HN being more USA-centric makes the question interesting; but I feel that if you ask people in most other regions, the answer would be "obviously yes".
- refrigerator 8y agoThanks for the response. Would love to hear the details — where were you originally based + where did you move to? What's been good/bad about it? Has it changed the way you think about things?
- pelario 8y agoSouth America -> Scandinavia, came here to pursue the PhD; however, If I had decided not to pursue a PhD I still wanted to live abroad. There are different aspects that make the experience different, like, whether you learn the local language or not (in many places you can get away with english). But, regardless of that, the "cultural gap" will be always there, obvious things for everybody that for you are a total mystery... and by being in such a different context, you start to realize that things that were "a fact of life" for you, or "the way things are", it was just a feature of your culture at a given time.... So yes, you learned a lot about yourself, your culture, and people. The bad ? you will find that each culture has great things and terrible things, and then, weherever you are, there will be something missing...