{"id":5325,"date":"2017-06-22T21:21:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/?p=5325\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T05:58:23","slug":"the-dangers-of-not-being-a-happy-camper-while-living-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2017\/06\/the-dangers-of-not-being-a-happy-camper-while-living-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"The dangers of NOT being a happy camper while living abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day I was browsing the <em>Expats Malta<\/em> Facebook group, when a discussion about pros and cons of living in Malta caught my eye. The group is too active for me to find it again, but basically (&lt;- that\u2032s a strongly beloved word among the locals) it was a flood of reactions to a British person criticizing healthcare, streets, and people\u2032s attitudes in Malta. Soon enough she was told to go back to her country.<\/p>\n<p>It inspired me to draw this comic.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5326\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/expats.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5326\" class=\"wp-image-5326 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/expats-1024x635.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/expats-1024x635.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/expats-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/expats-768x477.png 768w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/expats-624x387.png 624w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/expats.png 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the image to enlarge it<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I can understand that unless they don\u2032t like it themselves, most people want to hear positive things about their country. Yet they must understand that reasons for moving to places are extremely diverse. Most of the time people understand migration as following one of these two models:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Absolute individual will: a migrant moves to places because s\/he assessed their qualities and chose the best place for living. They should not complain, because they made a free choice.<\/li>\n<li>Absolute determinism in the hands of fate: a migrant escapes war or uses the only program available for working abroad, or they move to a country they don\u2032t like because they have been posted by their company, or they moved because of their partner, who happened to live in a country they don\u2032t like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reality is somewhere in between. People use whatever opportunities they can find, and a job or study opportunity is often enough to make one move places. This doesn\u2032t remove their right to critically discuss other aspects of living there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day I was browsing the Expats Malta Facebook group, when a discussion about pros and cons of living in Malta caught my eye. The group is too active for me to find it again, but basically (&lt;- that\u2032s a strongly beloved word among the locals) it was a flood of reactions to a British person criticizing healthcare, streets, and &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2017\/06\/the-dangers-of-not-being-a-happy-camper-while-living-abroad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1219,162,442],"tags":[1205,156,344],"class_list":["post-5325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-socialissues","category-travel-impressions","tag-comics","tag-expats","tag-migration","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}