If the recent Brexit vote and the latest general election weren't the final indicators of this, I definitely don't belong in the UK. I am not conservative or myopic enough, and I think that for its faults (and it has a few), the EU remains a great concept. I far more enjoy living in Germany than I ever did in the UK.
Germany actually is not my favourite country - that honour goes to the Netherlands, where I lived for 9 years in total. Liberal, open-minded, tolerant (yes, I know that does not apply to everyone, but overall it is true, apply that principle too to my previous comment about the UK). Work environments in both the Netherlands and Germany have been generally far better and opportunities far more abundant, and I have been extremely thankful for the opportunities that I had since I left the UK - where such possibilities simply did not seem to exist (debt and unemployment seemed to be everywhere). My wife (who is from a different continent) also loves the life here.
With Britain leaving the EU, most of its young people will be denied a lot of the opportunities, both professional and personal, which I have had, and I feel sorry for them for that reason.
For the record, I have a degree in French, and have also lived and worked in France, though that was a few years ago. Paris is a great place to live though and is affordable when compared to many of the world's major cities.
Is it normal to feel like you were born in the wrong country?
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If the recent Brexit vote and the latest general election weren't the final indicators of this, I definitely don't belong in the UK. I am not conservative or myopic enough, and I think that for its faults (and it has a few), the EU remains a great concept. I far more enjoy living in Germany than I ever did in the UK.
Germany actually is not my favourite country - that honour goes to the Netherlands, where I lived for 9 years in total. Liberal, open-minded, tolerant (yes, I know that does not apply to everyone, but overall it is true, apply that principle too to my previous comment about the UK). Work environments in both the Netherlands and Germany have been generally far better and opportunities far more abundant, and I have been extremely thankful for the opportunities that I had since I left the UK - where such possibilities simply did not seem to exist (debt and unemployment seemed to be everywhere). My wife (who is from a different continent) also loves the life here.
With Britain leaving the EU, most of its young people will be denied a lot of the opportunities, both professional and personal, which I have had, and I feel sorry for them for that reason.
For the record, I have a degree in French, and have also lived and worked in France, though that was a few years ago. Paris is a great place to live though and is affordable when compared to many of the world's major cities.