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ButterflyEffect  ·  4227 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you think you could live in a Foreign country?

American Themed Restaurants... shudders ...other people on my study abroad wanted to go to those every so often but I just told them to have fun and headed down to the nearest decent boulangerie.

That's very interesting, I wasn't aware that ex-pat communities are a thing that happens in different countries, though it makes sense. I can definitely see people from the same area grouping together and kind of closing themselves off from the rest of the country. Actually, that's kind of what happens with a lot of the Indian population at my University come to think of it.

I'd love to hear more about your experiences as an ex-pat. What country did you live in, and did you already have experience with the language and culture prior to living there?