Thread:Rapunzel71/@comment-35319541-20180529014514/@comment-35395864-20180529033145

Thank you, Lola! I currently reside in Buenos Aires, Argentina with my husband and teenage son. We came here for an opportunity my husband was given with his job for a 3-year contract to help start up a new operations center here in South America. He works for an international financial services conglomerate. Me being an expat is short for expatriate, which is just a person who lives outside of their native country. That’s what I’m writing about at present, is what the experience has been like to live here. I’ve lived abroad before and lived in London in the mid- to late-90s. I was actually there when Diana died. 😔 My husband is also British himself; I met him while I was living there. (I would have stayed there forever if not for the weather. I grew up in small-town Florida, and moved to London for my first time living on my own. But yeah, I went to the UK, where the weather was a complete 180 compared to Florida.)

But yes, in moving yet again to another country, site unseen, one thing I/we forgot to consider is that even though this is another world capital city and a large number of people are bilingual, this is Latino culture—-not Anglo culture. And ooooooooh myyyyyy were we sooooo not prepared.😆😆😆 It has been a fantastic experience, and we have learned so much. We have been here a year and a half, and have another year and a half to go here.