[InternationPlayboy]

The one thing I really miss while traveling is guy friends. While I connect much better with foreign women, it's so much easier to connect with guy friends from your home country since you have the same culture. While I met great people in Brazil while I was there, there were just certain things I couldn't connect with them on as I could my friends at home. Also, even though the food there was great, there were times I couldn't wait to fuck up some American McDonalds (At the time, I don't eat fast food anymore). Brazilian McDonalds is even more disgusting than American McDonalds. For me I found in Brazil you had to order chicken from the fast food places. The beef was terrible. Not that our McDonalds beef is good or anything, it's just that taste you're used to.

[AlphaTravel]

I've always found McDonalds tasted like McDonalds in every country in the world.

[InternationPlayboy]

I noticed a big difference between beef at both burger king and mcdonalds in Brazil and the states. I also noticed a big difference in Marlboro ciggarettes as well. American cigs tasted much stronger to me. I really missed ranch sauce as well. I found it in a sandwich they had a the fast food joint bobs, but it just didn't do it justice. The burger was disgusting. I think the US needs to jack up fast food prices like Brazil and maybe we wouldn't be such fat asses. It's damn near $10 a meal in BR at a mcdonalds.

[AlphaTravel]

Yeah McDonalds and even Bobs Burgers in Brazil was really expensive for what it is. Same in Argentina, way over priced. In Thailand it's cheap compared to back home but expensive compared to local food.

[trainwreck]

(04-13-2012 12:50 AM)AlphaTravel Wrote:  

I found that whenever Brazilians get out of the country they realise just how wonderful Brazil actually is and that all these other places they dreamed of going just cannot match their home country causing them dissapointment. Loads of Brazilians I know thought Europe seemed like the best place ever only to go live / travel there and not like it nearly as much as they thought and long for home. I can't blame them they really do have one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Funny you say that since it happens to quite a lot of professional footballers that go to Europe

[Mr.GM]

(04-15-2012 06:34 AM)trainwreck Wrote:  

(04-13-2012 12:50 AM)AlphaTravel Wrote:  

I found that whenever Brazilians get out of the country they realise just how wonderful Brazil actually is and that all these other places they dreamed of going just cannot match their home country causing them dissapointment. Loads of Brazilians I know thought Europe seemed like the best place ever only to go live / travel there and not like it nearly as much as they thought and long for home. I can't blame them they really do have one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Funny you say that since it happens to quite a lot of professional footballers that go to Europe

exactly , most brazilian players that go to Europe don't adapt and come back to brazil after some years. When they come back here they always blame : food , weather , and the "coldness" of the people. Of course there is a minority ( the best players btw) that actually love Europe and have sucessful careers there.

[Deb Auchery]

(04-14-2012 01:30 AM)InternationPlayboy Wrote:  

I noticed a big difference between beef at both burger king and mcdonalds in Brazil and the states. I also noticed a big difference in Marlboro ciggarettes as well. American cigs tasted much stronger to me. I really missed ranch sauce as well. I found it in a sandwich they had a the fast food joint bobs, but it just didn't do it justice. The burger was disgusting. I think the US needs to jack up fast food prices like Brazil and maybe we wouldn't be such fat asses. It's damn near $10 a meal in BR at a mcdonalds.

Brazililians are fat arses too, half the population is obese.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17671253

I was planning to visit Brazil this winter, but I had no idea what huge asses they had, now I am reconsidering

[Mr.GM]

(04-15-2012 05:35 PM)Deb Auchery Wrote:  

(04-14-2012 01:30 AM)InternationPlayboy Wrote:  

I noticed a big difference between beef at both burger king and mcdonalds in Brazil and the states. I also noticed a big difference in Marlboro ciggarettes as well. American cigs tasted much stronger to me. I really missed ranch sauce as well. I found it in a sandwich they had a the fast food joint bobs, but it just didn't do it justice. The burger was disgusting. I think the US needs to jack up fast food prices like Brazil and maybe we wouldn't be such fat asses. It's damn near $10 a meal in BR at a mcdonalds.

Brazililians are fat arses too, half the population is obese.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17671253

I was planning to visit Brazil this winter, but I had no idea what huge asses they had, now I am reconsidering

true. the country is in the track at full speed to become the United States of South America , culturally and physically

[AlphaTravel]

Brazil is still incredible and worth a visit, head to Sao Paulo the girls certainly aren't fat there!

[Mr.GM]

(04-16-2012 01:48 AM)AlphaTravel Wrote:  

Brazil is still incredible and worth a visit, head to Sao Paulo the girls certainly aren't fat there!

yeah , we have our share of fatties here , thats for sure , but we still have lots of hotties around. I don't bang fatties , and I have my fair share of hot tail on a regular basis.

[freshcream]

This is my first big trip. Feeling the homesickness after 5 months now. Gotta find a project that will keep me busy.

[CJVM]

True as it can be. Life has a way of drawing us back to home. I was born in Madrid, Spain. At the age of 10 my family came over to Maryland and I liked it. Just happened that one time in college we go to this conference which had all kinds of nationalities in it. Meet this cute girl from Madrid and a week after meeting her I realize that I am drawn in and now want to head back there. Life has a funny way of bringing us back to home.

[Cyclone]

This topic scares me.

I've lived abroad a few times since 19 (now 24) and have always wanted to stay in the foreign country longer, or at least somewhere nearby it. I get pretty attached when I live abroad especially if for 6+ months.

However, I've never been abroad for an undetermined amount of time. Right now I'm sitting on an Australian work visa and can hop over there at any time (for 18+ months, then become resident) and have no idea how I'd feel about Chicago by then. I'm pretty sure I hated high school enough to not miss it.

.

[Cyclone]

..and for anyone who's getting "homesick" or whatever after 5 months (!) you need to get some local friends and really absorb yourself to their lifestyle. Some of my best friends in Vietnam were superior/more authentic than my best friends here. I'm sure the same goes for EU as well.
.

[bacon]

i think the younger you are when you leave your home to move to another part of the country or another country all together the easier it is. but if youve lived in the same city for 40 plus years it would be really difficult to move to a foreign land.

[Fortitudinal]

At this point I have lived in two countries, half my life in each. So Home is neither... I am an outsider in one, and the other.

At the end of the day, I have freed myself from all those things like 'country' and 'nation'. Im no longer bound by loyalties to those crazy concepts.

So freedom does come with certain downsizes. Red pill and all.

Ive tried a third country, and it felt homeish. . . might be something worth trying and pursuing further. I think cats like Xplat can shred some light on this.

[Every10GivesMeA10]

(02-14-2013 05:15 PM)Fortitudinal Wrote:  

At this point I have lived in two countries, half my life in each. So Home is neither... I am an outsider in one, and the other.

At the end of the day, I have freed myself from all those things like 'country' and 'nation'. Im no longer bound by loyalties to those crazy concepts.

So freedom does come with certain downsizes. Red pill and all.

Ive tried a third country, and it felt homeish. . . might be something worth trying and pursuing further. I think cats like Xplat can shred some light on this.

I can relate.

How did you get over the feeling of having no place to call home?

[Fortitudinal]

(02-14-2013 05:32 PM)Every10GivesMeA10 Wrote:  

(02-14-2013 05:15 PM)Fortitudinal Wrote:  

At this point I have lived in two countries, half my life in each. So Home is neither... I am an outsider in one, and the other.

At the end of the day, I have freed myself from all those things like 'country' and 'nation'. Im no longer bound by loyalties to those crazy concepts.

So freedom does come with certain downsizes. Red pill and all.

Ive tried a third country, and it felt homeish. . . might be something worth trying and pursuing further. I think cats like Xplat can shred some light on this.

I can relate.

How did you get over the feeling of having no place to call home?

I have to say that its interesting. You really start re-evaluating how you see the things you own, your friendships, whats tying you anywhere. its all in your head. Really, at the end of the day, what you need is very little.

Man, Im turning into a monk or something. But still, its very liberating.

Are you in the same boat? how are you getting over the feeling?

[MidWest]

Me being Mexican American I had lived in Mexico for over 5 months with family. You would think I would have been able to last longer but I got homesick after the 3rd month. Although Mexican food is awesome, I missed my American food. I missed McDonalds just like International Playboy, I missed Papa Johns, I missed the cheap China Buffets, KFC, and living in Chicago I missed deep dish Pizza, Chicago dogs, Italian Beef, Tex-Mex food, heck I even missed Taco Bell believe it or not. I know that sounds crazy but yes I actually missed Taco Bell while in Mexico, I missed the fake Mexican food. I have to eat the fake stuff every once and a while.