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Written by kaaskop on 2025-01-09 at 21:30

hey okay i wanna hear from fedi people who moved to another country (especially when they were forced to do so due to various circumstances); 1st generation immigrants, refugees and so on, everyone else stay out of it

is it bad that i wouldn't want to come back to my home country even if the situation would vastly improve in terms of civic rights?

like, sure poland isn't war-torn by any chance or under a full on dictatorship like some countries; but i don't want to go back there permanently. for a visit or such, sure okay, but i'd rather settle here in NL and live here even if i don't speak the language.

there are very very few circumstances where i would consider coming back (and those are pretty unrealistic come on) - i simply have plenty of trauma when it comes to life in poland (most related to my DV situation but still)

idk, most of the time i see the trope of people using immigration as a temporary solution and then coming back to their homeland after years (war ended, they earned enough money and so on) and i feel like an outlier for wanting to stay

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Written by Dave Tabb on 2025-01-10 at 07:07

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In 2015, I felt very out-of-sync with Americans despite being one. I decided to take a job in South Africa. Last year, I moved to the Netherlands, again for a job. I do not expect to move back to the USA in the future. I feel less in-sync with it now than I did when I left.

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