2. Another option is stay in your new country and spend more time getting to
know it. It’s a slight simplification, but as a rule of thumb expats
have either moved because of their career, in which case they are expecting
to move on at some time in the future, or have retired to enjoy the rest of
their lives somewhere different. In both cases there is a strong tendency to
stay put and enjoy the country and opportunities that you may only have a
limited time to experience.
3. Then there is the option to take advantage of where you are currently
living, to visit local places that normally would be out of reach. This is
the option favoured by Annabel: “From Dubai, we’re well-placed to go to
all those ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ places that most people in the UK rarely
manage to get to – Maldives is a quick trip for us, under four hours
away. Also Sri Lanka’s great for a long weekend, India’s two and a half
hours away, Mauritius, Thailand – all do-able. We also take lots of
short breaks around the UAE and Oman because it’s a brilliant tourist
destination; people pay good money to come here and it’s all on our
doorstep, so why not take advantage?”
Of course you could also do what we have done: adopt four cats (with a fifth
one currently being fostered and looking more and more likely to stay), and
give up all hope of ever having a holiday. It is slightly ironic because a
key factor in adopting our first cat was that it would force us to stop
splitting our time between the UK, US and Spain, and would bring more
normality and consistency to our life.
Little did I know what an obstacle they would become. If I had a euro for
every time I said
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