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Originally Posted by Michelle  Hi Murre,
I just want to say that I feel you. I also spent a year in Germany and upon returning home to the States I experienced something called reverse culture shock. I was never really able to go home again, so here I am in Switzerland :-). |
I've lived abroad several times in my life. I spent years outside the US and see the country and culture through a different lens than before I traveled. I like the US but it is a different experience for me than it was previously.
It is in some ways like returning to the house I lived in when I was five as an adult and recognizing the differences between my idealized memories / beliefs and how I perceive it today.
I still like the states I just do not believe it is the one perfect place in the universe and refuse to examine the complete picture. I see things that are less than ideal where once I would not have had that ability.