Episode 5: Hating Hotel Rooms, Cultural Nostalgia and Choosing Not to Be First

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Dear Expats

Polina Milushkova, Julia Kuzmina

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Living abroad is an epic ride – until you’re dragging heavy boxes up a creaky staircase, crying over your favorite hometown song, or become baffled by foreign medicine instructions. We’re Polina and Julia, two Russian expats in the Netherlands, here to chat about the wins (and epic fails) of expat life. Every episode, we read your letters, share our own mishaps, and dish out honest advice. Raw stories. Real laughs. Let’s swap experiences and help each other survive – and thrive – no matter where we land.

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Episode 5: Hating Hotel Rooms, Cultural Nostalgia and Choosing Not to Be First

Dear Expats

27 minutes 22 seconds

6 months ago

Episode 5: Hating Hotel Rooms, Cultural Nostalgia and Choosing Not to Be First

What is my tax id, where to buy a mop, how do I pay for my insurance? These are only the tip of the iceberg of questions immigration poses to us.

So this time we go deeper and ask ourselves:

- How immigration changed our attitude to trains, airports and hotels?

- Stages of adaptation to a new country and what we could have done differently?

- Living in the Netherlands and never traveling abroad — whaaaaat? Why people choose a more emotionally regulated lifestyle.

Join us on this reflection journey, write comments and share your stories in a letter!

Our email: hello@dear-expats.com

Our website: https://www.dear-expats.com/