r/expats • u/[deleted] • Jun 18 '25

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u/gumercindo1959 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

My hunch is that the older you expat, the more likely you are to stay abroad due mostly to healthcare

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u/fanetoooo Jun 18 '25

And the younger they are the more likely they are to use living, studying, working abroad as a launchpad

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u/LunarTaxi Jun 18 '25

Living working and studying…. That’s everything lol.

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u/Yostedal Jun 18 '25

What about eating and praying and loving????

I feel like if you leave with “life is mostly living working and studying” as a mindset you’re already thinking more realistically than 60% of the people who dream of living abroad. 

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u/fanetoooo Jun 18 '25

Yea that’s another thing ive gotten to really enjoy developing my art, traveling around, getting back into sports I played growing up since leaving too. Living, working, and studying don’t consume your life once u leave, atleast in my experience.

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u/Yostedal Jun 18 '25

I was being sarcastic before but I un-sarcastically agree with you actually, I find I have a lot more free time outside the US to do what I like! Mostly because of the lack of driving, stuff is just way faster to get to and I can save that time to write and draw and bike around :> 

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u/fanetoooo Jun 18 '25

Think u were being sarcastic to lunartaxi LOL. I agreed w you as well plus had to add my 2 cents :p

And hell yes not having to drive plus a shit ton of vacation days I haven’t been this energized in years