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United Kingdom · Portugal passports · started 2025–2029
Don't panic if you don't instantly find your people during Freshers' Week. Join international or multicultural societies—you'll find other people who completely understand the nomadic background.
Before they found their people
Within the first year
What surprised them
Even though I hold a British passport, having grown up abroad made me feel surprisingly like an outsider at first. People who grew up entirely in the UK had very different shared pop-culture references from my childhood
Wished they'd known
I wish someone had told me how big and decentralized London universities can feel. It requires a lot of active effort to build a tight-knit community compared to a smaller campus university.
Choose it again?
Yes, I would. Studying International Relations in the heart of London gives you access to incredible networking opportunities, global events, and a multicultural environment that fits a TCK lifestyle.
Across every review here, expected to already be local predicts whether someone belonged. Treated as foreign doesn't. Why that is
Italy passport · started 2015–2019
Considered leavingTo consider other options, and other countries too
Before they found their people
It took longer than a year
What they studied
Health & Medicine
United States passport · started 2010–2014
Considered leavingThere are lots of international students but it has a high cost of living and a disconnected social culture
Before they found their people
Within the first year
What they studied
Law
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