Four On The Move

‘How often do you go home? ’ – was a usual question I got from my British colleagues and neighbours, who referred to me going to visit Poland. At first it made me quite upset, because to me ‘home’ was where my family and I chose to live – so at that time it was Liverpool.   Later, I just decided to think that this was an easy way for them to ask about travelling to my country of origin. Still, one of the most welcoming feelings I had was when I heard a British border control officer say: ‘So you’re going back home now ’, when we were returning to Britain after a few-weeks travel in Europe. It was the first time I heard a British person referring to Britain as MY home. Living outside of my country of origin I’ve had many reflections around ‘home’ and how we define it. Recently I had a chat with a close friend about moving countries. Before this conversation I had always thought it was so much easier to move countries when you’re single, because you don’t h...

 In search of xxx (write your own) in your life Years ago, I had a discussion with a bus driver in Spain who said: One always wants to stay in their hometown. If one has a good job in their hometown, they would never want to leave . Back then I was twenty-three, enjoying my Erasmus semester in Granada, hoping to stay there for longer and dreaming of all other places in the world I will live in. I couldn’t agree less with his statement. If you’re reading this blog, you probably also have some expat experiences, maybe already many of them, or maybe you’ve only started thinking about moving to another country. We may have different motivations for moving abroad. Love, career and adventure will only be some to name. Antoni and I had always felt life was too short to stay in only one place. After some years of studying and working in Krakow, we came back to our home region in the South of Poland and did everything people usually do to settle – we built a house ...