Does Homesickness Ever Go Away? (the reality of moving from UK to China)
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2023
- Feeling homesick when living abroad is a natural emotion. Whether you are only a few hours from at home at university, or the other side of the world, it can often feel overwhelming and lonely. Even experienced travellers will have days where the feel homesick, maybe a family member back home is sick or had a baby that you want to meet. Maybe it’s the language barrier or you’re missing your mums cooking. This week I am opening up about the struggles I have faced that contribute to my homesickness and try to answer the question, does homesickness ever go away?
Things I do to help with feeling homesickness:
- Talk to loved ones.
- Do something creative
- Organise something
- Document beautiful things (sunrise, sunset, flowers etc.)
- Eat home cooked meals
- Exercise
- Hangout with friends
- Blab on about it for 9 minutes on UA-cam...
If you have any other tips on how you deal with homesickness and missing home, let me know in the comments below.
Ultimately, I do not regret moving to China, however that doesn't stop me from missing England or my family.
Disclaimer: These are my experiences with homesickness and the struggles that contribute to feeling homesick. Things mentioned in this video are things that help me, they may not help everyone. If you need support or are struggling, my comments section and inbox on instagram are always open to you.
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Thank you for watching! ❤️
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思乡之情会消失吗？ （从英国搬到中国的现实）
身处异国他乡，想家是一种自然的情绪。无论你是在大学里离家只有几个小时的路程，还是在世界的另一边，你常常会感到不知所措和孤独。本周我将公开我所面临的导致我的乡愁的挣扎，并试图回答这个问题，乡愁会消失吗？
我为缓解思乡之情所做的事情：
- 与亲人交谈。
- 做一些有创意的事
- 组织一些东西
- 记录美丽的事物（日出、日落、鲜花等）
- 吃家常饭菜
- 锻炼
- 和朋友出去玩
- 在 UA-cam 上大谈特谈 9 分钟......
如果你有任何其他关于如何处理思乡和想家的建议，请在下面的评论中告诉我。
归根结底，我并不后悔搬到中国，但这并不能阻止我想念英格兰或我的家人。
免责声明：这些是我的思乡经历以及导致思乡的挣扎。本视频中提到的事情是对我有帮助的事情，不一定对所有人都有帮助。如果您需要支持或遇到困难，我在 Instagram 上的评论部分和收件箱始终对您开放。
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Living in a foreign country is challenging, but luckily you live with your loved ones. For me, being in Australia alone for the last six years is extremely nostalgic. Meanwhile, I gained my independence and resilience from this experience.
I think it’s very important to move away from home to find yourself and your independence. I’m very lucky to not be alone and have made a life for myself here 🥰
we all feel homesick sometimes. but after I visitied my hometowns for 2 weeks I realise I need to move on. Trust me its all parts of growing up.
Yes, I definitely think I have moved on, I’ve lived away from my hometown for 7 years now but it’s the people and food that I miss most. I’m sure going back for a couple of weeks will “cure” me for a while and remind me why I moved away 😂😂
I am currently studying my masters at LSE in London - my fellow students who are all locals are going topsy with anxiety every week worrying about the cost of living, rental affordability, inflation, brexit rising unemployment and energy prices
on top of a miserable rainy start to autumn so you ain't actually missing much here.
Hahah yes I hear about this is lot from my friends back in England and I feel a bit guilty because the cost of living is so low here. It definitely makes me happy I live in China 😅
Is the UK so bad? No way
hello Natt, I thought I might add my experience being far from home. I left the UK for Australia and I too was very homesick so after a few years I went home for a month, when I got back to Aus I realized I was only remembering all the good things about back home and had blocked out all the negative reasons why I left in the first place, the weather and food was a couple of them,
When you can finally manage a holiday I'm sure it would do you a world of good 😀
Yes, I definitely don’t want to move back to England but I can’t wait to see my family and eat all the English candy and chocolate that I can’t get in China 😅
Whenever I feel homesick, I’m just making travel plans in my mind for my next trip back home, imagining how I’m gonna spend my time with my families and friends. Sometimes I even did the packing up like it’s for real. It’s a double edged sword though, as it might make you feel even more homesick. But I guess everyone has their own way of dealing with this issue.
I’ve been doing this! Although I haven’t booked flights yet I fully intend to visit England in summer since we can finally renter China but now I just want it to be sooner 😅😅
As a transplant myself, I totally understand how you feel. I agree entirely with your response to Paddy's comment that it's important for any young person to pursue his/her dreams in order to expand one's horizons. There is no perfect scenario for vagabonds in dealing with homesickness except making frequent trips between where you were born and your new home, wherever that might be. Speaking for myself, the emotional attachment to families will remain forever but emotional attachment to geography will fade over time as one ages. Now I see the entire world as my home. Your videos are perfect indications that you have done very well in a foreign country, and I am sure these have brought assurance and comfort to your family back in the UK.:)
Thank you so much for your kind comment. I think you hit the nail on the head there about seeing the entire world as your home ❤️
This is a lovely, personal account of you and your feelings. You are truly missed at home. Look forward to seeing you soon xxx
Miss you so much, I can't wait to eat your honey gammon. Love you ❤❤
Thinking home is correct, I have also left my hometown city Shanghai before, I still miss my home and my city after leaving for a week, go home and have a look when you have time, good luck
I think our home will always hold a part of our heart, and you will miss it even if you are only away for a short time. I will go back to England in summer to see my family though 🥰
@@ExpatNatt Yes, there is an old saying in China that a golden nest and a silver nest are not as good as your own nest. Haha, maybe you can bring your parents to China in summer when you return to the UK
@@shelleywoo7956 That is such a nice saying! Hopefully when China opens to tourist visas they will be able to visit 🥰
@@ExpatNatt That's great, they're welcome🤩🤩🤩
You guys are cooking!! Yay! And gosh I feel you about home sickness. It’s hitting hard lately for some reason. Loved all your tips on how to combat the feelings. ❤❤
Thank you! By “you guys” you mean Miu 😅😅😅 I’ve started looking at flights back for summer but the price is painful 😂
It's always the people you miss. I went back to my small town in the North-West of england last week and overall I just thought how much I was glad I didn't live there anymore.
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Natt this video is so sweet. We miss you so much, but you are doing amazing!! X
Miss you so much ❤️❤️❤️
You should go back to the UK and see your family. It's hard to be away from your home for a long time.
Flights are booked! I’ll be going back to visit in July (finally!!!)
Can relate. Lived in Aus for long time but when I moved I was very homesick . Somehow I got used to it
Yes, it usually isn’t too bad but when something goes wrong the homesickness kicks back in. I’m sure if I went back to England now I’d miss China and feel homesick for here too 😅
Homesickness is a matter of our minds. Switch your mind to, "Let's enjoy whatever I can when I am here," rather than dwelling on the past. I know it is not easy, but if you gradually learn to enjoy the present and spend less time thinking of the past, it will help.
I agree. I try to live everyday to the max and appreciate the beauty in everyday life instead of being sad. Even with keeping busy, once in a while everyone living away from home will feel homesick, even if you only live an hour from your “home” 😅❤️
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Thank you for sharing us your honest feelings. Your thoughts are very deep. I hope that you can solve your problem with homesickness somehow. Maybe you and your boyfriend can visit your home in britain more often (I think it is important for a man to know the close people of his girlfriend so he can understand you better emotionally) or you could invite your friends and family to come visit you in china? I am sure this would help! Take care.
Thanks for watching! We will go back to visit family in summer, the first time since COVID that the borders have been open for us to be able to travel home. I’m looking forward to it very much ☺️
Aww, sweetie...I am sure you miss home, but home is part of you...this is an adventure of a lifetime and enjoy your time there...your UK family loves you...and your USA mates do to...take care and blessed be, my dear...
Debs ❤️
Thank you, Debs! ❤️
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I can't imagine people living in China have homesick, such a big place, so many different kinds of people, so much food and beauty.
China is definitely one of the best places in the world for people to live, rich land, various kinds of self-sufficient production, various kinds of food, long history of culture, peace loving and kind and enthusiastic people, safe society, etc. And it is still trying to develop, which means its future is more promising. The best idea is trying to learn its language -Chinese(Mandarin) properly, that's the “KEY” to unlock much more things like talking with local people around, exploring the culture, less time stick on the "comfort" life medium such as UA-cam, FB, Twitter, but more on Chinese Douyin, WeChat, Weibo. Travelling to to more remote places, far away from the cities (especially Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, etc.) and experiencing the more local Chinese culture. Best of luck, having a lovely life in China!
I agree, traveling China and trying new foods, meeting new people, and learning the language and culture keep things exciting and is the time I feel least homesick. The main problem is missing family. China has everything except my mum and dad 😅😅
@@ExpatNatt I totally understand, you are a good girl, always keeps parents and families in heart, and hoep you got chance to meet them more often, or just take them to travel or live in China a while, Love from London, UK 🇨🇳🇬🇧
I hope you can visit your family soon! I was confused into thinking your craft was food when you put what looks like polishing paste on it lol.
I am on the opposite side of the spectrum with this, though since I simply can't find a job in Los Angeles capable of lastingly supporting me leaving my parent's home and doing other things like supporting a family or simply just more than myself. I feel so much anxiety seeing all my peers moving on with their lives and getting homes and a spouse and children etc. But, I am grateful for being able to be so close to family. Especially with one of my siblings having a child soon who will be my parents' first grandchild, I look forward to spending tons of time with my future niece/nephew who I'm sure will spend loads of time at the family house. As a Christian, my situation has really challenged me to embrace my convictions concerning so much regarding my future, but I am prayerfully persevering through it all. I find doing things like helping with home renovations and gardening and even just archery to be such helpful ways of relieving stress. I wish I was in Anhui, though, because that's where my bow comes from (the alibow company), and it would be so cool if that place gave a tour of their facilities.
There’s definitely two sides of the spectrum and not everyone is able to just move to the other side of the world, and others have no interest in it. I do feel guilty sometimes for leaving my family behind since we are so close, but I wouldn’t be happy in my hometown. Plus, after meeting Miu he was not able to get new visa for England so it was a choice of staying at home for my parents or moving to China for love. You would love China, archery is very good here and cheaper than the west, you could definitely visit Anhui and also maybe try some traditional Mongolian archery! ❤️
wish you have a good life in china. enjoy foods .enjoy traveling time
Thank you ❤️❤️
new life and new home you have achieved, are very new for you. you missed your home in England, that's alright. when you make china your second home. you will have homesicknesses on two place.
make fun with the people around you, with your husband . as long as you're happy , you will always have one walking with you. ❤
Thank you for your kind words. I visited my hometown in summer and after two weeks I already missed China so much. I am very lucky to have two homes now ❤️
We miss you darling.... Love from Livi and Ivy xxxx
Miss you trillions. Can’t wait to see how big Ivy is when I visit in summer! Love you both ❤️❤️
@@ExpatNatt I can send you a picture of her on Facebook if you'd like Hun xxxx
Maybe do a big English breakfast once a week and the occasional Fish & Chips here and there:)
We have tried a few English breakfasts and Fish and Chips but they never taste like they do back home, and if anything makes me miss the food in England even more! 😂❤️
I am from Songjiang where you live, and I move to Germany. Although I have a house with 600 square meters at home, but the problem is there is no good jobs!! 😢
I understsnd your pain. I used to get homesickness and i didnt eat the local chinese food for the first sox months when i came yo china. My friend used to scare me to say how chinese cook with rats and roaches in their kitchen
There is no epidemic prevention policy now, and borders of China have been fully opened. You can easily go back to the UK to visit your family, eat the food you miss, and meet your friends. Keep positive and moving on!
Chinas borders are open but still not open to tourists, plus I have a job that I can’t leave so the earliest time I can go back is summer, but I’m so grateful that I will be able to go back this year! 🥰
@@ExpatNatt Glad you'll be home soon ~ there's nothing like seeing family you haven't seen in years.
@@ExpatNattit is open to tourist !
@@AmelieZh yes! It is now! I will visit my family in summer when I can get the time off of work. My mum unfortunately is unwell and unfit for flying so she won’t be able to come out to China and see us until she has finished treatment.
Yes modern times at least make the world smaller with cheap communications and social media to swap photos and videos - my parents were refugees from Vietnam and they had to keep in contact with relatives in the homeland through monthly letters and the occasional fuzzy long distance phone call! (and taking an international flight back then was almost unheard of for ordinary people)
Yes, we are incredibly lucky to live in modern times, I don’t think I’d have managed moving so far away without being able to talk to loved ones back home everyday (and get a timely response!)
my poor nattie
🤣🤣 Did you miss the bit where I said "I have a family in China... I am loved..."?😅
✌️ move back home 🤞
I think that’s what my mum would say hhhh
Whenever Natt feels homesick she should visit Thames Town in Shanghai. 😂
Yes! I visited in November and it was freaky how English the buildings looked! It was very empty still because of Covid though, much like a typical high street in England actually!
Think of us(Pakistanis) who pay millions of rupees to study in Uk and other good countries and struggle for immigration.....
You can't even feel it
Do you know how to play mahjong? 😄 You could make tons of new friends!
Yes we used to play regularly with friends. The problem is we work so much we don’t have much free time to hang out with friends anymore! 😅
Is China now open to tourist Visas?
No not yet 😭 I’m hoping by summer it will be but that’s just my guess ❤️
@@ExpatNatt supposed to be open 3/15 , but right now already opened online for appointments
@@weizhang2834 yes! I just saw the update! Great timing!
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希望你在中国生活开开心心！
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We should all just becoming a sigma male like Ted Kaczynski and find a peaceful hut in Montana to while away the time working on a big grand manifesto away from the distractions of friends and family - problem solved!
Now there’s an idea 🤔😅
china is getting more and more ...😭like“say something is something”