Seasoned expatriates know that moving back to your home country is often harder than a move overseas. In general you need half a year to settle in for expatriation and a year for repatriation. When we moved to Belgium in December, I tried to organise myself for a hard transition. Aware that not only I changed over the years, that family and friends have full agendas and that our “hometown” has developed into a city of the 21st century; cosmopolitan but still very rural compared to The Hague or Bucharest. |