To Live in a Foreign Country

As you can see from the title, no matter how long I live in Canada, it will be a foreign country in a sense although I can call it my second home.

Is it only me as an immingrant? Would it be different if my family were here? Or, is it a stupid insular prejudice against the overseas world that I have and have grown up with.

Anyway, to live in a foreign country is sometimes tough.

Friends of mine are thinking to move to East Asia. When I heard it on the messenger, I shouldn't have been that criticizing, in fact, I just could have said, "good luck."

Maybe, my friend is mad at me, or not.

Before I moved to Canada, I was lucky enough to have a trip to Canada and to know a person who is still a friend of mine. I have been in the States before, so I knew the distance between each city is wide and afar in North America. I tried to gather information about the country as much as I could at bookstores in Japan although this doesn't mean that I have read all the information. In this current time, you can do it with the Internet easily. Back then, I hvae visited Quebec city, Trois-Rivières, Montréal, and Toronto and the surrounding towns. I preferred to be in Montréal because of its more-historical-looking nature of the city.

I chose Toronto to live because of my 6-year of English education in junior and senior high and improving the language. Apparently, Montréal wasn't for me to stay at the time.

After almost 10-year of living in Toronto, it has became my second home, but my first home has been always the city of Higashiosaka, that is just a suburban, satellite city of Osaka. I still miss to see the Mountain that I can see from my parents' house terrace.

Anyway, this is my story and what would be yours?
I hope my friends will reach a decision that won't make them regret.

"Life is too short, so enjoy yourself."

This was the first phrase that made me get used to a life in Toronto.