Reverse Culture Shock  

We won't be able spit freely and piss anywhere we want ..

We won't be able to see pretty girls spitting on streets . 

Does this qualify for "reverse culture shock" ?

No jianbing, what will I eat?

Being bored.

Traveling by plane. 

For me the worry was finding a reasonable job due to having a few years of ESL teaching near the top of my resume 

Not sure what happened to my answer...

But my greatest fears were adjusting to the laws, social order and trying to reintegrate.

In China you can never integrate... cause you are a foreigner... but when you go back home... much is expected of you from society and there is more pressure.

I have returned home a year ago... but I plan to go back to China in a few weeks. Why?

For a few reasons:

1) It is quite boring here.
2) I have proven myself.
3) My wife's business is in China, it is local... mine is online...
4) I learn more being in a foreign country than I do at home.

1. Job market
2. Drugs and gun violence
3. My kids meeting unknown challenges
4. Know the Cleveland Browns will still suck when I return home.

My biggest fear was, where in the hell i was going to get 70,000GBP (700,000RMB) from, needed to apply for my wife's spouse visa. After missing her son for some years and wanting to see her granddaughter and daugther -in-law more, my mum came along as my angel and sent me the money. Just need to apply for the visa then we're off. The Brexit situationon is coming incredible for people to move to England (just a word of advice)

Lack of job opportunities and small salaries

Hi, I was the original poster. I just feel compelled to reply. Thanks for your input. I have heard a lot of these concerns before. It's just that now I have been in China 5 years, and my English girlfriend has left me to go back home. I have been depressed now for many months. I am really not interested in Chinese women because they are shallow and ditzy and mostly not even attractive. I long to return to my state with green trees and blue skies and fresh air because I have asthma and I miss being outside and hiking and climbing mountains which here I never have time for because my job simply doesn't give me convenient time off.  My job now pays well but it's just the same repetitive ESL training center bull shit.. I know things will be really hard when I go back, but I will always have the same concerns no matter how long I wait to go back, so now is better while I'm still (kind of) young to at least try and make it back there。 I hope because I have a master's degree and know and have taught other languages I can get a job at a private school and eventually start my own school. Feel free to challenge my perspective or tell me what you think. Thank you.

Hi, I was the original poster. I just feel compelled to reply. Thanks for your input. I have heard a lot of these concerns before. It's just that now I have been in China 5 years, and my English girlfriend has left me to go back home. I have been depressed now for many months. I am really not interested in Chinese women because they are shallow and ditzy and mostly not even attractive. I long to return to my state with green trees and blue skies and fresh air because I have asthma and I miss being outside and hiking and climbing mountains which here I never have time for because my job simply doesn't give me convenient time off.  My job now pays well but it's just the same repetitive ESL training center bull shit.. I know things will be really hard when I go back, but I will always have the same concerns no matter how long I wait to go back, so now is better while I'm still (kind of) young to at least try and make it back there。 I hope because I have a master's degree and know and have taught other languages I can get a job at a private school and eventually start my own school. Feel free to challenge my perspective or tell me what you think. Thank you.

Ooh, didn't mean to double post that. But thank you all for your time.

I've been considering going back to my own country for a couple of years now and the one thing I fear most is change. In particular, the changes that have taken place that I have not been part of and have left me behind. 

I recently started applying for some positions back in the UK. Positions that I thought would make me an ideal candidate because of my background. Positions that are a perfect combination of my technical skills, cultural awareness and language ability.

What I have discovered since I was last in the UK is that there has been seismic changes in the job market and the recruitment process. I have discovered that almost every position advertised is now dealt with by recruitment agencies or headhunters who, on the whole, don't even bother looking at a CV unless the computer awards it a certain percentage in the "fitness for the role" test. I have discovered that interview technique has gained a whole new modus operandi. 

In short, it seems that the new job market is designed for the candidates that can play the recruitment game with the highest degree of subtlety and not necessarily the best or well qualified candidates.

I don't know. I guess that I could pay an agency to rewrite my CV is such a way that it avoids auto delete on the recruiters' computer system. I guess that I could study endless online material and Youtube videos to attune my brain to the new ways of doing things. Whether I can do enough to bridge the gap is something that I would not know until I fully committed myself to trying. Making that transition is fearsome in itself.

So of all the fears that I may have, the biggest fear of all is the uncertainty of change.

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