🇬🇧 5 golden tips for adapting to a new city

Moving to a different place, where we may not know anyone, is a challenge. If we don’t speak the language it can be scary. But it can be the best thing we can do for ourselves, a wonderful experience. This text is to share some tips to make your experience in a new city or country the best it can be, help you get around the loneliness in your new home and expand your social circles.

1. Use the internet to keep in touch with the friends you already have so you don’t feel lonely where you don’t have friendship with anyone. If you speak the local language, you can also use the internet to meet people who live in the same city or who have similar interests in other parts of the world, expanding your social circles.
2. If you don’t know the language, try to learn. I learned English first because I think there will be people everywhere who speak the language and because most of the foreign music I liked when I started studying languages was in English and I wanted to understand them (if you’re new here, my native language is Portuguese). I keep learning others. And if you don’t speak any foreign language, first learn the language of the place you’re going to live.
3. Cultivate independence. For some people it may seem difficult and scary, but it’s a lot easier than it sounds. Going out on your own to go to a museum, to the cinema, to musical shows... are ways of getting familiar with your new home, warding off loneliness, being part of that environment. As a bonus, guaranteed cultural enrichment.
4. Don’t be looking for familiar things, people and flavours all the time. Live the experience of being in a different place entirely.
5. Create your own paths. Every person is unique and every experience is unique. I lived in a few different cities and each experience was different from the others and I followed different paths to enjoy the experience and to leave those places to new destinations. While my experiences can be helpful, you must live yours, make your own choices, learn from them.

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Nycka, the Nomad