Our Weird Obsession With What’s Comfortable And Familiar When We Move
I’m not moving to Spain in search of soft pretzels, hot sauce or multiple brands of peanut butter
Apparently, peanut butter isn’t a thing in Spain.
I had this confirmed when — in a Spanish supermarket — I went to what we might call the “peanut butter aisle” in the American equivalent.
There was one choice of peanut butter.
I was mildly disappointed for about 4.7 seconds. Maybe less. Then, I moved on.
CNN recently relayed the story of an American couple who moved to Spain six years ago. Now, they say they’d be “very depressed” if they had to return to the United States.
While the entire piece reaffirmed the feelings my wife and I have around moving to Spain — (we’re leaving California on January 2nd) — the end really resonated:
The couple say they’d advise anyone considering moving to a completely new destination to really throw themselves into the experience and accept that their lives likely won’t be the same as they were before.
“The people that struggle the most are the ones that are, for whatever reason, just trying to replicate the life they had in the place that they left,” says…
