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Spain passport · started 2020–2024
Don't assume that having the country's passport means you will automatically feel local. Give yourself time to adjust, and try to meet people who have also lived abroad. Your background can be different without being a disadvantage.
Before they found their people
Within a few months
What surprised them
I was surprised that returning to Spain did not feel completely like coming home. I spoke Spanish and had Spanish citizenship, but I had spent most of my childhood in France, so some cultural references and social habits felt unfamiliar.
Wished they'd known
I wish someone had told me that returning to your passport country can be a culture shock too. I expected adapting to university to be difficult, but I didn't expect to feel somewhat foreign in a country I considered my own.
Choose it again?
Yes. It was a difficult adjustment at first, but studying in Spain helped me reconnect with my home country while also understanding how much growing up in France had shaped me.
Across every review here, expected to already be local predicts whether someone belonged. Treated as foreign doesn't. Why that is
Brazil · Spain passports · started 2010–2014
Pode ir, mas nunca deixe ninguém tentar ser melhor que voçê.
Before they found their people
It took longer than a year
What surprised them
A receptividade. Fui muito bem recebido
Wished they'd known
Nada
Choose it again?
Sim, foi uma experiência incrível.
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