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A comment on Ask HN: Have You Regretted Immigrating?.

Re:Ask HN: Have You Regretted Immigrating? by pjmlp on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:56AM (#31702554)
The way I improved my economic status and social skills, being able to master several European languages, alongside the programming ones, has been a great experience.

Having lost touch with many friends and relatives, not being able to follow some cousins growing up, being made aware of someone's illness or death, without being able to be present, or having thoughts where would I live as last country, not so much.

So while I don't fully regret it, as I wouldn't be the same without those experiences living 20 years abroad, I surely have mixed feelings about it, and might in retrospective taken other decisions along the path.

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Re:Ask HN: Have You Regretted Immigrating? by rozenmd on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:51AM (#31702982)
Yeah I'm starting to realise this myself having moved from Australia to France myself.

Big plusses but life kinda goes on without you back home, and you kinda miss it.

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Re:Ask HN: Have You Regretted Immigrating? by david-gpu on Saturday June 11, 2022 @07:43AM (#31703774)
As a young person it is easy to take for granted your parents' health and see old age and death only as as some remote future possibility, instead of the relentless proximity that it is.

I wish I had traveled home more often. Then again, work left me with very little energy left and the only times I took an airplane was to visit my aging family. So maybe there wasn't much I could have done.

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