Reasons Why Everyone Should Live Abroad at Least Once

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Reasons Why Everyone Should Live Abroad At Least Once 1. Celebrating your holidays from home with a group of friends who’ve never experienced it (such as having Thanksgiving dinner in France or the Fourth of July in Japan) is way too fun to pass up. 2. Having friends to visit on both sides of the ocean gives you something to always look forward to, and be working towards. 3. There are limitless new ways of thinking and perceiving the world, and you discover them only when you immerse yourself in a new language and force yourself to think in it. 4. Even if the language isn’t different, you come to realize how different two cultures with the same language can actually be. 5. Sending and receiving postcards, and the feeling of opening up the mailbox and seeing a beautiful new picture with the handwritten words on the back. 6. The rainbow of junk food available in each country — and the variations on all of the greasy, sugary stuff you love at home — is something that everyone should get to explore. 7. Expat bar crawls are the best thing ever. 8. Singing songs together, drunkenly, from your home country while on said bar crawl is also the best thing ever. 9. You immediately gain a new perspective on your home country, and start to realize all the things you took for granted as being “normal” when it was only “normal” to your country. 10. You completely redefine what “normal” actually means. 11. Getting immersed in an entirely new cuisine, and all the rituals and joys around eating that come with it. (I miss you, proper crusty bread, I miss you so much. I miss passing you around the table and breaking off a piece, and then loading you up with perfect, smelly cheese during the mandatory cheese courses at the end of every meal.) 12. You might fall in love with a local. 13. Simple things, like the curve of a rooftop or the way the

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