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I came to Korea from Canada in 2004 to teach English for a "year or two". I'm still here. I have zero regrets, though I do wonder sometimes what my life would be life if I'd stayed in Canada.
If you moved back, you would have become a bald twitch streamer.
I'm sure this is referencing someone, but I have no idea who. Twitch is blocked in Korea.
Are you still teaching English or did you manage to get out and do something else? My understanding of English teaching in Asia is that it's a bit of a career trap.
Well, I now run my own (half-owned) school in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, work four days a week, 6 hours a day, and fund several hobbies, a nice house, and a gym habit. I can't really complain. Maybe I'd have a more secure retirement working as a middle manager back home, but which one sounds like more of a career trap to you? Oh, and I can transfer my pension to Canada and go live there when I retire if I really want to.
You would have been closer to Daddy Trump.
So, a lot more of life sucking and a lot less pretty boys to fawn over.
Yeah, the past twenty years have been a bit of a roller coaster ride watching what's happening in NA. Ironically, I thought I'd be moving into a blatantly corrupt government basically run by crony capitalists. And yeah, Korea has its share of that, but wow, things out west have been falling apart horribly recently. South Korea seems to have its head on straight by comparison. Canada at least doesn't seem to have fallen too far down the fascist rabbit hole, yet.