I\u2019ve been living in Japan for almost 3 years at the time I\u2019m writing this. Since I moved here fully, I have only traveled back to my home country England once. <\/p>\n
For a while after moving away to Japan, I wasn\u2019t really missing England that much, but as time went on, I eventually<\/strong> started to miss it. I missed my family, my friends, and my cat. Though I like many kinds of Japanese food, I missed English food, and English supermarkets.<\/p>\n After about 2 and a half years, I finally went back to England on vacation. It was really nice visiting home again, as 2 and a half years felt to me like too long. I could see my family, I could go around my hometown, and I could experience English supermarkets again.<\/p>\n Honestly, I wish that I could visit England more often, but the biggest obstacle<\/strong> to this is how much it costs.<\/p>\n The flight tickets are the most obvious<\/strong> expense of visiting England, and they can be really expensive. I managed to get a good price last time though because I booked the tickets a long time before the flight dates.<\/p>\n However, there were 2 factors<\/strong> that forced me to save up money for a long time.<\/p>\n The first was that I needed to pay my rent while I was away. The second was that I wasn\u2019t earning any money while I was on vacation. The combination of those 2 things required lots of money to be saved up before I went on the trip.<\/p>\n Saving up enough to pay for trips to England takes me a long time, so even though I would like to visit more often than I do now, I think it\u2019s very difficult to do that. If I\u2019m always trying to save a ton of money, it takes away from what I can do in my regular life. It\u2019s one of the biggest downsides of living abroad. <\/p>\n By living abroad, it seems I\u2019m faced with a choice. If I want to constantly travel between England and Japan, it\u2019s going to drain my money in a big way, all the time. I\u2019ll spend the whole year or more saving up, only to spend it all at once and go back to the starting position again.<\/p>\n Perhaps, in order to make myself more financially stable and invest in my life, it\u2019s required that I commit to living in one place, and only take big trips once every 3+ years, or something like that. That would grant me more time to save money and invest in other things instead of repeating the cycle of saving a bunch of money and spending it all on going back to England. Of course, the downside of this is that I wouldn\u2019t be visiting home all that often, which is kind of sad.<\/p>\n So, I wonder about how often I should visit home. Japan and England are just so far away from each other, so traveling between them is quite a commitment in both time and money.<\/p>\n It\u2019s something I\u2019m currently thinking about.<\/p>\n Thomas<\/p>\n Vocabulary<\/strong> I\u2019ve been living in Japan for almost 3 years at the time I\u2019m writing this. Since I moved here fully, I have only travele\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneup.jp\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\neventually (adverb) \u2013 in the end, after a long amount of time
\nobstacle (noun) \u2013 something that is in the way of a path or goal
\nobvious (adjective) \u2013 easily seen or understood
\nfactor (noun) \u2013 a circumstance or fact that contributes to a result<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"