Thursday, May 04, 2006

Penang -Leaving home for good

Why do people leave their homes?.....Many reasons..... economic, cultural, political, religous, love.......They say there are both push and pull factors.......

Most my friends that left penang and malaysia to settle down overseas. Most of them left when they were just 20 or below 20 years old.....after school to pursue higher education, or for some less fortunate, to work in places like singapore and germany.....while others to work and study in the UK to become nurses, both males and females.

After four or five years overseas, they get used to the place, and for some maybe, finding love.... will find it difficult to come back home to readjust to the work environment (which they never had any experience at all) and to the place.

After awhile the foreign place becames familiar....comfortable.....and ....then it feels like home....and it becomes home....particularly if you have friends.....Governments in NZ, UK, Australia.....treat people better & they do provide good services to their residents......and so this is the pull factor

The push factors are....u have become a stranger in yr own home.....u have a better model to compare yr own home with & u begin to notice and find so many things that are wrong.........yr home had become less comfortable ......& so u pack yr bags and go, only to return occassionally to visit yr parents ...and when they die.....no more reasons to come back....

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