South 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 a

South 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...