As the title, I relocated to Switzerland 10 months ago.
In the beginning I had the usual normal anxieties of moving away from home for the first time. However as time went by, adapting to living in Switzerland became harder for me.
I feel a bit defeated because Switzerland is a beautiful place and there are so many good things I love about it, but I just cannot seem to be happy 😔 winter is now here and I feel a bit worse.
I am thinking of moving back to my home country. The thought of being back around my family, the things I love to do, my old friends is making me want to go back more and more. I had an easy life but my salary was not the best hence why I wanted to move.
Is it normal to regret? I am very disappointed in myself for feeling like giving up and going back. But I have been quite depressed for the last 7 months.
When I said the words out loud that I want to go back home I felt a huge sense of relief…however I am still hesitant to lose the opportunity to live here.
I am welcoming any advice you can share. Thank you everyone.
I am going through something similar after moving to a country I’d really been looking forward to for a long time. I have however given it longer than 10 months, we even got a mortgage here and are currently renovating our first home, but on the whole, it just isn’t the place for us, so we will eventually move again, and decide what happens with the house then, but that’s another story. I have lived in quite a few countries other than my own, for about 2-3 years each country and I have easily adapted to, and felt better in every single one of these countries than where I currently am. But I’ve also been back home in between some of these moves and I inevitably get reminded of the reasons that made me leave in the first place. I guess this just goes to say that, you can both give it some more time, and consider other options than that of going back home, idk, it’s just a thought…
Wishing you luck !