I Don’t Care Which Color The Grass Is In Europe
How I view our move to Spain. It has little and a lot to do with green grass.
When you tell people you’re moving abroad — in real life off and online — you receive all sorts of reactions.
While most of the responses are positive, encouraging and even super helpful, a significant minority — (around 35%-40%?) — are decidedly negative.
The negative Nellies tend to do one of two things —
- Project their own fears or failures on you. They assign them to you.
- Tell you that you think the grass is greener on the other side. That once the euphoria fades, you’ll be in for a rude awakening.
Les Longino, who moved from Arizona to Barcelona with his husband about a year ago, summed things up nicely in an exchange we had on another platform —
…Yeah we are loving it — naysayers like to say “the grass isn’t always greener on the other side” (we had plenty of acquaintances back in the States react somewhat negatively to our plans) but sometimes, it IS greener on the other side!
It’s been such a positive change.
I think they key with us is we didn’t come with that idealized vision of European Utopia that many people have… We had…
