The Second-Year Wall — Why It Is Not Culture Shock, and Why That Is Worse
The expat second-year wall is real, but the culture-shock U-curve that explains it fails its own tests: a novelty dividend amortising to zero.
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Paradise Is a Place You Visit, Not a Place You Age
The brochure footage is real, and honeymoon-phase, survivor-sampled data sold as a marriage. Paradise is a relation, and the move ends it on schedule.