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Have you ever wondered about how would it feel like living abroad? If you were offered the opportunity, would you take the chance?
If anyone ever asked me this question, my answer would have been a HELL YES! Spending a few years in another country, in a different part of the world, getting to know a new culture and trying to fit into a new group of society was always on the top of my bucket list.
I was dreaming about the US since I was a child, I loved New York even before I got to actually visit the city (at the age of ‘seven and twenty’), but if someone told me to transfer to even the UK, to any Scandinavian country or to my other big love Italy I’d have said yes immediately.
But what about Abu Dhabi?! Anyone ever told me that I’ll be living in Abu Dhabi some day, I’d have told them they are crazy and it’s simply because I’ve never considered this part of the world as a place one can have a convenient life with all the pleasures European people think are so important (and also I hate heat so much that at the beginning of every summer in Hungary a cursed the day the temperature started to rise above 25 degrees and prayed for the day the first leaves start falling on the ground). Putting all jokes aside what is the general first thought of anyone who has never seen the UAE before? – Sand, unbearable heat, camels, locked out of civilization and more sand.
Was I wrong having prejudicial attitude towards this place? Absolutely!
And how does Abu Dhabi meet the criterias of the “Let’s live in abroad” points of my bucket list?
- Another country? – Another continent
- Different part of the world? – Is 5,300 km far enough to call itt different part?
- Assimilation into new society? – Only fitting into Eskimos or the African Indigenous would be any more harder than this
- New culture? – Do I have to explain?
Main requirements of completing a lifetime goal: check, check and check!
I could start telling my story and how I found myself in the middle of the desert, but this place should be firstly about You, Dear Reader and help bringing this amazing place closer to You. Helping if you are about to move here, if you are about to come on a holiday or if you’re just interested how life can be in a place so far from most of the western people’s heart.
Because I gotta tell you, once you leave all your false bias behind, open your mind and let yourself actually see what life in the Middle East can offer you, it will be hard to let go…