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My Expat Childhood Made Me the Traveler I Am Today
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2265" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/my-expat-childhood-made-me-the-traveler-i-am-today/ar-BB15psgi" target="_blank"><strong>My Expat Childhood Made Me the Traveler I Am Today - MSN</strong></a></p><p></p><p>I cringe to admit I returned to <a href="https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/the-most-beautiful-places-in-south-korea?mbid=synd_msn_rss" target="_blank">South Korea</a> for love. I can now say convincingly that it was more about a love for travel than love of a specific person, though that's not how it might have felt back then.</p><p></p><p>I grew up living in <a href="https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-to-spend-72-hours-in-seoul?mbid=synd_msn_rss" target="_blank">Seoul</a> until I was nine, having moved there as a four year old from Texas for my father’s job. The day my family left, I remember sitting in my window seat on the United 747 to Los Angeles, looking at the tarmac before take off—the last physical patch of Seoul I would see for nearly 20 years. I knew that this city was an important part of my life. That I needed to hold onto it. But yet I still didn't feel particularly attached. Being an expat from such a young age—we were in the United States for two months, then <a href="https://www.cntraveler.com/story/new-zealand-road-trip-auckland-to-wellington?mbid=synd_msn_rss" target="_blank">New Zealand</a> for 10 years after living in Seoul—means you develop an extraordinary ability to internalize a place without feeling an umbilical connection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2265, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/my-expat-childhood-made-me-the-traveler-i-am-today/ar-BB15psgi'][B]My Expat Childhood Made Me the Traveler I Am Today - MSN[/B][/URL] I cringe to admit I returned to [URL='https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/the-most-beautiful-places-in-south-korea?mbid=synd_msn_rss']South Korea[/URL] for love. I can now say convincingly that it was more about a love for travel than love of a specific person, though that's not how it might have felt back then. I grew up living in [URL='https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-to-spend-72-hours-in-seoul?mbid=synd_msn_rss']Seoul[/URL] until I was nine, having moved there as a four year old from Texas for my father’s job. The day my family left, I remember sitting in my window seat on the United 747 to Los Angeles, looking at the tarmac before take off—the last physical patch of Seoul I would see for nearly 20 years. I knew that this city was an important part of my life. That I needed to hold onto it. But yet I still didn't feel particularly attached. Being an expat from such a young age—we were in the United States for two months, then [URL='https://www.cntraveler.com/story/new-zealand-road-trip-auckland-to-wellington?mbid=synd_msn_rss']New Zealand[/URL] for 10 years after living in Seoul—means you develop an extraordinary ability to internalize a place without feeling an umbilical connection. [/QUOTE]
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