How do you cope with the lack of socialising or missing family abroad?
I’m currently in my 4th year of law school and I’ve been planning on doing an LLM abroad. IThe LLM would be justified only if I work abroad, hence I’ll most likely explore opportunities abroad too.
Now, the past few weeks I’ve spoken to various cousins and relatives who live abroad. Especially the ones who live in the US mentioned about how there was a lack of socialisation and every communication felt quite transactional. For example, he mentioned how in India one would generally make small talks while grocery shopping, while in the states it’s quite transactional. I also feel like Europe is far more social and they have a better WLB, but the taxes are quite high.
Now, how do you feel about missing family events, not being able to meet family members and in general not being able to live closely. Your life is now far more different from theirs. How do you cope with this? How do you deal with a “less social” life?
Also, did you never force your parents to move in with you? Did they deny and not want to move out or is it that you weren’t able to afford it yet? With them aging I’d like to live closely.
I’m veryy afraid I’ll be all alone and lonely if I move abroad. My grandad travels internationally often, maybe I can get him to stay w me for a while. But again, how Long? Maybe a month or two. My dad’s a director at an MNC and had ample opportunities to move abroad, to the states, to Germany, London, UAE and what not. They even asked him to atleast try out by staying there for shorter periods of time. He denied it all. Also he’s building a new home far away from Bangalore in a coastal town so I’m kinda sure he will not move in to the states with me. It’ll just be me. How do I deal with it? How do y’all deal with it? What if I feel like moving back to Bangalore later as I’d rather be with those who I love. I can’t make such switches in my career. It might be difficult to move back otherwise