If you’re an expat, some things that aren’t too typical start to look normal. Can you relate to any of these?
- Duolingo
This screen has become very familiar as you desperately try to re-learn all that Spanish you never actually absorbed in high school. After a while, it turns from a language learning tool to an obsession….
As a bonus, buildings without emergency exits do, in fact, become commonplace. As do the lack of smoke detectors, hot water, and electricity.
2. You drive like a maniac
Right side of the road, wrong side of the road, middle of the road, not even on the road. Everyone else drives like a kangaroo on seven Red Bulls, and so do you, now.
3. Your change purse looks like this.
Seriously, if I take that Kenyan shilling from Ben’s high school laundry money stash to the laundry room one more time, I am going to fling the entire washing machine out the window.
4. Knock-offs
You can’t tell me this isn’t J.C. Penny in disguise.
5. Your passport is like our third arm
Your passport is literally worth more than your entire net worth combined. You would rather fall off a cliff into a moat full of hungry sharks while wearing a flaming straight jacket than loose that thing.
What are some other signs that you might be an expat? Tell me in the comments!
