As part of a trend toward globalization, and the desire to be globally competitive has driven the growth of executives, scientists, professors and PhD students who accept job offers and study outside their countries. Expatriates, they move with their family to a completely new life where most of the things are very new. It sounds very exciting, right?
As an expat, it is understood that saying goodbye is part of the deal….but that does not make it any easier. And here it just start the difficulties of adaptation: being far from your home country and moving away from all that is familiar.
The article was published on August 12, 2011 at Berkeleyside.com
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