I Thought Living Abroad Would Make Me Happy. Moving Home Did Instead
How moving back home gave me the financial and personal freedom I never expected.
From my early twenties to early thirties, I lived in four different countries: rural Panama, the Piedmont in Italy, London, England, and downtown Toronto. Panama was for an internship, Italy for my master’s degree, London pre-Brexit as a European citizen, and back to Canada—Toronto, specifically—for my first magazine job.
Summing up a decade of living ar…
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