A couple of years back I emigrated from England to Sweden. (Family reasons unconnected with this forum.) I've always been able to make myself at home wherever I wound up, but still, I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly I settled in to living in a new country.
Recently it dawned on me that being somewhere where I don't know the social rules, don't know how the system works, sometimes don't understand what people are saying... is normal to me, and always was. No wonder I found it easy. In a very real sense, I've always lived in a foreign country.
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Foxibus
Oh better far to live and die under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part with a pirate head and a pirate heart.