Why we leave and miss our dear countries.

Many of us Choose to live abroad, simply because we always wanted it  or because we just did not have choice but to leave our homeland. It is never an easy choice to make, many things are left behind, with it some pain, hopes, expectations. But leave our country is also sometimes the promess to make it better somewhere else, hope that things will be different, the hope that we can make a definit change in our own personnal world. 

Nevertheless, we do miss our country in so many ways no matter how much we can say we will never leave this new land.

I have been talking to many French while being in Germany, some very happy of their condition, some just sceptical of how the future would turn out. 

Some of us are abroad because the economic situation of our country is just catastrophic... Being under the age of thirthy is a problem in France because we can't find anything, diploma or not, we all have the same problem, we need experience to find something better in the end.

                        

I know only few of us left france because our situation in France is not really the nicest. We left our studies, we didn't really know where to go and what to do so instead of just complaining and do nothing we went abroad to feel useful. We learn new culture, new language, we are part of the new Europe and we are happy to be different from the others who stayed at home eventhough sometimes we would love to be like them and have less trouble and be comfortably installed at mum and dad's place and going to uni everyday instead of just working at the corner of the street. One thing is sure, people do look at us like we are lost and need help to get a straight direction, but we lived so many scary and hopeless situation that after a while we do not worry so much of what tomorrow will be because we are like cats, we always fall back on out little fragile paws. That makes us stronger and rich of experience, except that when we come back home, people just do not care about it, all they see is that you are still without any studies and that is what makes you want to go back to another country where people just don't think small. 

We miss our family, we of course try to recreate this family atmosphere with friends or for some lucky get to make a new family with proper German or British so we do actually feel less alone. Most of the time, from what I have heard and what I personally lived, I would say that if we could, we would stay in the country and bring all our family back where we are !being a French abroas also teaches you that you always need to know some people from your country because it is not possible to just stay with people from the country even if of course we do have to mix ourselves with the others. 

[ - FOOD - , I think this is the worse part of the whole "being a French abroad", not only do we not miss it but we dream about it. Seriously how many times in six months have I not dreamt about eating a good "éclair au chocolat" or some very greasy "Cassoulet" and "Tartiflette", I could cry when a friend of mine is in France and tells me "Oh last night I had a wonderful dinner" and I was here in Germany ending up with some Curry Wurst or Maueltaschen, no offence to you German, you may be the second best Gastronomy in Europe but you will never make it to the top. 
When talking with my French friends abroad we always imagine all of what we could eat, making us feel extremely bad about it. But, we have to be honest here, Germany is not the worst country in Europe for food (really), I mean at least we can easily find some nice quality French food in pretty much any supermarckets of the country which is hardly the case in Great-Britain. 
Indeed, the UK is a big chaos for French, well I just emphasize everything here but Ido not remember having eaten anything French that was delicious. 
Here we go, now other countries love our food just like we appreciate some of theirs (do not ask me which ...) and of course they do their best to have variety of produces coming from abroad or at least they produce it themselves and as any French would do, "O my God, French food I want to buy it straight away !" ... Do not ! Or maybe do in the first place, just to give it a try, but we are always dissapointed ! 
One example; bread, what a beautiful invention, but countries like Great-Britain cannot produce good bread so never expect anything fantastic ! 
As for Germany, well it is slightly better but a good baguette will be almost 3€ and extremely pale ... no way ! well just to sum it all up, if you are French and it is totally fine with you to just get used to the "French food abroad" then more than fine but if you are not, better ask for a cooking book for Christmas and start cooking for yourself ! ]

We all have our own reason to leave, but the reason we do it, always hide a good reason, we just try to get what we can't have in our own country and we realise our dreams in one way or another in the land we think is the best place for them to be realised. No matter how much we will treat it, we love the country we live in as it became the land of our heart.