Repatriate Me!

Now that I’ve been back in Canada for 5 months, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on life as a returnee after 15 years abroad: what I like, what I don’ t like, things to do, things not to do and how things are different than expected.

If you are a short term expat, probably less than 5 years, then much of this will not apply to you to the same degree of someone who has lived abroad for longer than 5 years. The longer you’ve lived abroad the more this will apply – at least in my mind that’s how it works

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A couple of weeks ago I went to New York for a conference related to web development. The conference was excellent and I wrote up my thoughts on the conference on my company blog.

I really enjoyed my time there and found the city much easier to get around than Toronto. The subway in New York is very good, but not quite as good as that in Seoul. New York is really a great place for photography and I truly wish I had more than one day to roam around as I didn’t get enough shots in. I did upload two sets to flickr – one on general New York and the other on the Conference and venue.

And here are a few of the pics that I really like.

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