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[quote=Anonymous]My experience was somewhat similar.
I agree that an expat is a person who does not expect to stay in the country for long and makes no effort to integrate. At the same time you are loosing out on an experience you could never have at home.

Expats are not all wealthy. In my day it did not matter why or how you came to be living in the country. Every person was welcomed into the expat community and we all had a shared experience. In the end it became a proxy type of a family.

I second the recommendation to move to a country before kids start high school. I changed a country and a language at 14 and for me the move back to the passport country was painful. I do not have lot of sympathy for parents who regard their school going children as luggage and never give it a thought. At the same time my youth was very unique, challenging and wonderful at the same time

I did not raise my kids in the same lifestyle. My parents are now retired in the home country, I never got used to the lifestyle and do not identify myself as belonging to that country. I am from there, know the language and culture, but life happened and now I live elsewhere and am adjusted and happy. This despite everything.
At some point you have to realize that the constant moving is not about you anymore[/quote]

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