Learnings from Five Years Living in a Different Country

Hello. It's Wednesday, October 21, 2026. And this is: Learnings from Five Years Living in a Different Country At the end of October, I’ll have been living in France for 62 months (five years and two months). It feels both not that long and like I’ve been here my entire life. I moved to France (Toulouse, specifically) one year after the 2020 zenith of the COVID-19 pandemic. I was 24, very in love, and ready to get a redo on what had been a rather lackluster university experience in the USA....