"It Always Feel Like Someone Is..."

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@"Kenzo" 

I remember the old times....where no one had yet mobile phones

Roger that.

DECADES ago I was in Europe as I am today.  Back then, "calling home" was a big deal, and besides snail mail, it was the ONLY means of communicating with people back in the USA.  Living as an expatriate then, the feeling of "being away from home" was palpable.

Today ... sh**.  I am in constant internet contact with friends and family the world over.  Yeah, it is still a long trip to physically set foot in the USA again, but I don't feel the distance anymore.

And the above is precisely why the new migrants in Europe don't have to, and won't, assimilate into the societies in which they've settled.  The "old country" is just a few keystrokes away.  There is hardly a break with the old way of living and doing things.

Cheers