Everyone wants to go home...except me!
Jul 14th 2010, 1:35 pm
#31
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Jul 14th 2010, 6:21 pm
#32
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Re: Everyone wants to go home...except me!
Has he checked the bit in parenthesis is right? We had one ex-pat deal where it turned out the company didn't care where the flights were to - it was just a fixed cost allowance to them anyhow. They paid for a great holiday in St Lucia that year!
Jul 14th 2010, 6:25 pm
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Re: Everyone wants to go home...except me!
Jul 14th 2010, 11:42 pm
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Re: Everyone wants to go home...except me!
I've only been home about 6 times in 27 years. Probably 3 times in first 10 years, then less and less after that. I got so tired of doing the family thing - only a week or two total, and everyone wanting you to visit them/etc. Seeing the same old stuff, same old people. I now go to Italy or Spain or other parts of the world, and I tell my folks flat-out - I spent 25 years in that country and now it's time to see other places. I pay for them to come here and visit me so they can't complain they don't see me. They love it here so everyone wins.
I am so with you - I could have written this post.....My close family come out here to visit me; relatives ... I thank the stars there is an 8,000 mile excuse between us ... I could never stand suffering through family gatherings when I lived back there.
Now, my mum is 82 and still fit as a fiddle; some day she won't be, and ... I don't know what I'll do then. Go back and spend time with her, I guess. That's the only thing that will get me back there ...
