Reverse Culture Shock

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On 11/20/2021 at 4:46 AM, USAUAinCZ said:

Any other Americans who lived abroad for a substantial amount of time and move back feel really weird being back in the USA? I read into this a bit and discovered it's called reverse culture shock. It's been a year since I've been back full time and I still can't seem to shake it.

 

Having to drive everywhere again, deal with traffic, having higher expectations at work, more aggressive people, polarization of so many topics, increased cost of health and dental care, expensive rent prices while apartments are lower quality etc. It's all just been pretty tough to get used to again. I'm still kind of glad we made the move to the USA as the work situation is better here as I work in IT but everything else just seems like a massive downgrade. Could just be also that we don't do much as we have a newborn and coronavirus has made it tough for us to meet with people. 

 

Anybody else go through this?

I'm worried about this and we haven't even moved back yet. Especially public transit and being able to walk or bike places. Most major cities in the US have relatively good public transport networks now but people tell me they would never takes their kids on the bus/train because of safety concerns.