Here we are in the Ides of March, and it’s the Ides of Ex-pat Angst.

It’s the season where many among us who live abroad have decided to move on, but now find the abyss of the unknown gaping before us.

It was not an abyss six months ago, when horizons were broad and sunny, possibilities were endless, and we were itching for a change.  Whether it’s our insatiable wanderlust, or the inescapable pull homeward to our roots, or (in most cases), a combination of the two, we are people on the move, and it’s time to go.

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