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Q: How often do you feel homesick?
Once a month? Once a year? Or have you achieved the expat nirvana and don't feel homesickness anymore?
I though I was no longer affected, but China proved me wrong a few weeks ago. For me it would be once or twice per year.
Whenever I go home to see friends/family and then have to come back. Seeing as I only go for a week or 2 at a time, it all flies by and is all very rosy and wonderful. The plane ride home is always tough, though I usually get back in the swing of things after a few days.
Every time I go home; the place makes me sick. WAHAH! No, honestly, I feel it once a year at Christmas. Christmas here sucks. Last time I went back I was glad to leave though. I've even had dreams where i'd found myself back home without the funds to get back over here and I was really disappointed. Go figure.
Never, I am a grown person. If the question had been how often I felt like a hotdog from my favorite hotdog vendor back home the answer would be different.
Shining_brow:
I'll pay that sort of thought!!! Very true! (though, not hot dogs...)
Going 15 months without seeing my home country was too much last time. I started to miss it a lot after about a year, so now I have Christmas planned again this year.
I've spent over 30 years travelling / working around the world in my last career and this, I felt homesick (a little) when I had family in the UK, now, no family left in UK, my immediate family are with me here in China, this is home, I am home, so no homesickness.
I haven't a clue how I'll feel in 9 years when we relocate to the UK.
I miss my family a lot.
The boiled food here is not good. I miss Indian spicy food. Though there are a few Indian restaurants here, but no one is as good as we have back in India.
NiceBrice:
Cheers to that. I am seriously unimpressed by the quality of Indian food in China. For shame!
ALmost everyday but it's getting better for me. It use to be worse than what it is now. I'm getting use to living here but still I know this isn't my country and my stay here is temporary.
