Deptrai,
funny that I just post a message in another section, exactly about that !
and I feel relieved, sorry to say, that Im not alone and was wondering how many of us could feel the same.
As pilot, I always heard that we should accept expat life just because a pilot travel.
But for me , it's not normal. Only a few jobs request to be expat.
and travelling and living in another country (that we did not necessary chose) is different.
Personnally, I want to come back to Europe (that was my message in thoe thread) and was asking how is the market...
Expat life made me feels isolated too, and when I go out, it's always for beers, and nightclubs...
I got ups and downs a lot.
Pretendorious is right, but not so easy to make friends...I make friends but most of the time it's girls because they find occidents boys cute.
Personnally I look forward to coming back :/ I fly on A320 it's a nice plane but after a while, I start thinking about QOL and not following the plane.
Expat life IMO is not for everybody even if we are pilot. Pilot does not mean we should accept anything.
by the way, most of american pilot do not need to be an expat. Most of expat I meet are european.
We should be pilot in our own country. That's the way of life should be.