The Good and Unknown Parts of Living Overseas

[@annelipscomb]

Hello, I’m posting this on behalf of Anne Lipscomb. Since she needs to restrict her computer and screen time due to health issues. ☹️ Anne thanks all of you who post these comments and those at her blog. How she appreciates you taking the time to do it! Please accept Anne’s apologies…she would so love to reply to each of you.

[@clarinetbrasil]

thanks for uploading this video. It really has helped me a lot about the subject. I´ve been thinking to move to Scotland in order to improve my English, and it has helped me to realize what may happen to me. thanks a lot!

[@allsnugpug]

Wow, this is a really great video. Thanks for exposing the other side of living abroad. Many people romanticize living abroad and tend to leave out the reality of the situation.

[@anotherblonde]

Lived abroad a good part of my life in all cultures. Learned to walk in Africa. When I return to England, the hardest things to adapt to, is to stop bartering for everything. I have to catch myself when horrified glances warn be I just did it again. In Israel they throw your change at you when you pay, or slap it down on the counter top for you to pick up. I wanted 2 tomatoes in Egypt, and went home with 2 kilos lol. In France no veg is served with your meal, but you see lovely veg for sale at the markets and shops everywhere - what do they do with it? Feed it to their livestock?. Try being a vegetarian in Spain. I tried making myself understood in Arabic in Malta. I am happy to say that when I now walk in the massive souk behind the station in Luxor I know all the names in arabic of all the veg for sale, and can buy just one or two of each item at the correct price. I cook lovely Indian recipes, and find people in the street outside enjoying the aromas and wondering what I am cooking that smells so different to what they cook. I make Persian rice for Egyptians.

[@julianaleo631]

Thank you for sharing an insightful look into living abroad. I have often thought about what it might be like to live in another country as an "adult". After all, as a child we moved constantly - I was born in Berlin...and then years later moved back to Germany, Taiwan, and many places in between. Over the past few years, I moved to a small town to help my mother, who was aging and no longer could take care of herself. She is now in a nursing home. All this time, I endured living in this area of NJ. When I say endured...I mean, I spent most of my time caretaking - and finding little time to spend with myself, or friends that I made. NJ is also very expensive to live for the 'long term'. One reason is high property taxes. The other reason I endured is that I just don't feel that this "me". Being creative & artsy - I don't lack for having things to do... but I have yet to find my nitch. I am now trying to move forward in my life - but had never anticipated that once my Mother passes....where will I go next?! Especially as time goes on, I will be in the Retirement phase of my life. I'm doing a lot of research, and totally understand the period of adjustment that one must make. It takes almost two years to finally feel at "Home". Even after doing tests like "Findyourspot.com " - I still don't know what to look or what I may be missing? Any insight (if you check these messages) you might provide would be very very helpful... sigh This is probably crazy for me to ask, but I thought I would try and see what happens. For the first time in my life - I am starting with a clean slate, and working on my list of what I hope to attain on my journey. Juliana

[@OvercomeLoneliness]

Thanks for sharing your story, Anne. I'm actually planning to stay in Korea for sometime next year.

[@acm65]

Thank you! Very thoughtful and informative.

[@sarahleach9997]

I lived in Australia for years and i england for 2 years It was glorious and depressing It gets better the older i get.

[@charlesfoster575]

Hello Anne-- Very thoughtful post...and important to consider, which is the reason I was looking for experiences to forward to clients who are acquiring property abroad. The first thing that came to my mind was my own realization that, actually, I am not even a citizen of this world since my baptismal "death" to myself and spiritual rebirth into the Kingdom of our Creator by Yeshua. This not only helps us have accurate expectations abroad, but even more importantly, when we are exposed to the "ways of this world" that can be so foreign even when they arise within our own families and home town! ") I believe that we must be reconciled and restored spiritually to the Kingdom we were originally made for...and find that even the most difficult challenges tend to dovetail beautifully within that perspective. As Yeshua claimed: I have come to bring good news to the poor, freedom to the captives, sight to the blind and set free the oppressed (who isn't oppressed in some way?), for the time of YHVH's favor has come...this very day! Is 61 fulfilled in Luke 4:18 See also: Is 53, John 1-21 Shalom!

[@koleyw932]

One becomes weary after a week as a tourist, I'm sure culture shock is difficult, I determined this the first time I visited Paris.

[@rockoramadevil]

oh I know one thing or two about the telephone issues in another language......Italian in uk

[@JuliAnneMurphy]

Anne, while this video is three years old now, it certainly still applies, whether you live in Panama (like I do, for 7 years now) or anywhere else that is not your native country. It's exactly the reason I wrote my two books about life in Panama for expats - they are The Gringo Guide to Panama: What to Know Before You Go and The Gringo Guide to Panama: More to Know Before you Go. I'm so impressed with your video that I am sharing it on my Expats Retiring Overseas playlist. Thank you! (For more on me and my life in Panama, you can visit me at my blog at www.PanamaGringoGuide.com .)

[@pietroangiolillo6240]

Thank you for making this video, I''m currently experiencing this ''culture shock'' stage in Albania and feeling the loneliness, It's very challenging and I have moments where I feel like I can't take it anymore it''s very difficult when you'''re not fluent in the language and also the culture see to be superficial and only about running, two things I am not interested in at all!....anyway, Thanks again for the video,

[@johntan1707]

me and my classmates fell asleep watching this for our cross cultural comms class thanks anne