🇬🇧 Two types of “nomads”

I was asked why many Italians who decide to live abroad return to Italy. My reflection is valid for anyone who makes this decision, whether Italian or not. What do you think? Share your opinion and experience with me.

Many people decide to live in another city or abroad to study and then return home. They never wanted to leave, to live different experiences. As a friend of mine says, they left their hometown, but the hometown didn't leave them. The mindset has not changed.

Many Italians left Italy to have a better life in Brazil and did not return to Italy. They really wanted to start a new life abroad. And the same goes for anyone with an open mind. They don't want to stay in the same place all their lives, with the same friendships, with the same opinions, etc. True friendships remain friends no matter where we live. Nowadays this is much easier than when I moved to another city for the first time, because we have the internet. In 1998 I chatted with friends sending letters ✉️.  😅

Getting to know different places as a tourist is very different from getting to know other places by living there, working there, discovering new cultures, learning new languages ​​on the spot… but it takes courage. Courage to be himself instead of being a mama's boy, who follows everything his mother says...

As having this courage is not common, most stay where they were born or live abroad for a while and then come back.

I have this courage inherited from my paternal family and polished with my own effort. An ancestor of mine left Lucca in Italy in the 18th century and went to Portugal. After that, the family was invited by the Emperor to occupy a position of trust in Brazil (this is the part of the Versiani family history that I know). And here we are! I left my hometown in 1998 and moved several times afterwards. I do not want to go back. Maybe I'm a little like that ancestor from Lucca, always wanting to move on.

This is the big difference. Many people today claim to be open-minded, but they have never allowed themselves to live in culturally different places, away from their parents and family, discovering different ways of living. As I have already told here about people who call themselves "eclectic" because they listen to pop rock, samba and other popular musical rhythms in Brazil, but have never heard classical music, metal (apart from popular bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica) and have never seen an opera show. They have a lot to learn.

Are you part of the group that is always moving forward, living in different places without returning to the place of origin? Or the group that lives abroad and comes back? Or are you still part of the group that never lived outside your hometown?

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Nycka, the Nomad