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The pleasures and pitfalls of living abroad

The pleasures and pitfalls of living abroad

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Dec 09, 2021
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Performing in Berlin, February 2007 (photo Dr Chris Ritchie).

I was recently faced with the possibility of moving abroad for work. In the end, I didn’t get the job, but it brought me to once again consider ‘moving abroad’, something I hadn’t thought about for a while. My initial reaction was a strong, robustly British objection of the entire concept, fe…

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