{"id":6669,"date":"2026-03-01T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:47:31","slug":"american-returns-to-us-living-abroad-wasnt-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2026\/03\/01\/american-returns-to-us-living-abroad-wasnt-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"American returns to US; living abroad wasn&#8217;t perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/american-lived-abroad-canada-europe-not-great-drawbacks-2026-2\">American Lived Abroad in Canada, Europe; Not As Great As It Looks &#8211; Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is, of course, a writer: <a href=\"https:\/\/sydbakestravels.com\/\">About \u2013 sydbakestravels.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sydney-baker-2690b5195\/\">(8) Sydney Baker | LinkedIn<\/a> &#8211; who had done two study abroad programs (one before graduation and one afterward).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is typical, all the stories are about young women &#8211; typically writers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x980.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x980.png 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-600x574.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-768x735.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-850x814.png 850w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unusual article in Business Insider, as a young ex-pat moves back to the US, noting life abroad is not the idyllic life portrayed in&#8230; well, Business Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-globally-experienced","category-immigration","category-study-intern-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6672,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}