Yeah I made the move at the end of 2022, though it wasn’t because I was trying to get away from the US or anything dramatic like that. I miss the pacific northwest quite a lot. It just so happened that my partner is from the EU and wanted us to be here close to her friends and family. I figured I was still relatively young so why not give it a shot.
It’s been alright. Definitely a case of trading some pros for cons and vise versa. Moving to Europe hasn’t been some transformative experience. It was a bigger life change for me moving from the US Southeast to the Northwest about 10 years ago than moving from the US Northwest to the EU.
Sounds like you haven’t yet naturalised to your new country based on the fact you said you moved to Europe rather than the country you moved to. Europe is pretty diverse.
What country did you move to? I would have thought the language alone would make the move a greater transition than moving from southeast to northwest in the US.
Been to Germany a few times and it wasn’t a whole lot different. People were a bit less friendly but things were more neat. Food and beer was decent and lower cost than I am used to paying for restaurants.
Yeah I made the move at the end of 2022, though it wasn’t because I was trying to get away from the US or anything dramatic like that. I miss the pacific northwest quite a lot. It just so happened that my partner is from the EU and wanted us to be here close to her friends and family. I figured I was still relatively young so why not give it a shot.
It’s been alright. Definitely a case of trading some pros for cons and vise versa. Moving to Europe hasn’t been some transformative experience. It was a bigger life change for me moving from the US Southeast to the Northwest about 10 years ago than moving from the US Northwest to the EU.
Surely there was more to your previous move because Europe is far more different from the US than the southeast is from the northwest within the US.
Hell I got culture shock from being in Paris for a week, and I lived in Europe as a kid for years and speak some French.
Sounds like you haven’t yet naturalised to your new country based on the fact you said you moved to Europe rather than the country you moved to. Europe is pretty diverse.
What country did you move to? I would have thought the language alone would make the move a greater transition than moving from southeast to northwest in the US.
I shared as much information in my comment as I wanted to
That’s fair, was mostly curious what EU country was that similar to the US, as none really stands out.
Been to Germany a few times and it wasn’t a whole lot different. People were a bit less friendly but things were more neat. Food and beer was decent and lower cost than I am used to paying for restaurants.