Do you have any family member
By solxee
@sol_cee (38223)
Philippines
March 1, 2023 4:57pm CST
who is working abroad? It’s been a month now that my brother left the country to work in New South Wales Australia. It’s an opportunity he couldn’t say no even if it meant leaving his wife and two very young kids behind. His despedida party was full of tears especially coming from my emotional mom. It’s a good thing someone gave my niece and nephew this very cute pug (photo above) to keep them busy. When I visited them last Sunday, I could talk with my sister-in-law and I asked her how she is coping. Thanks to technology, they could have a video call every time. The kids are too young to understand that their dad is far away but everyone is making them feel loved. My nephew is such a sweet five year old boy. He clung to me when we left and I promised we would be back soon.
You’re lucky if you have all your family members with you. For us Filipinos, five out of ten families have a family member working abroad. For their dreams.
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22 responses
@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
2 Mar 23
My sister is in California.. She's been working there for almost 20 years now, I think, and she just came home last year.. Yup, that's the first time she came home after leaving for US.
My late father also worked abroad, since I was born and he just came home once a year.
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
2 Mar 23
@brokenbee did you express any interest?
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
2 Mar 23
@sol_cee I think she has to petition my mother first... But I am not sure if she has plans...
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
3 Mar 23
@sjvg1976 in the past, it was very difficult to maintain a long distance relationship with the absence of technology. I had a classmate whose mom was working in the middle east and they could only communicate by snail mail and occasional, very short telephone calls because it was too expensive
@aninditasen (15742)
• Raurkela, India
2 Mar 23
My younger son works in Copenhagen. He is married but he stays separately from his wife in the same city as she is not a good woman.
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@aninditasen (15742)
• Raurkela, India
3 Mar 23
@sol_cee He is safe as he is a tough man. It's not so easy to frighten him.
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@RebeccasFarm (86760)
• United States
1 Mar 23
I have learned a lot from myLot about the Philippines here solcee and that seems to be the case. It is sad.
But I have some experience of this as my own Mother had to do this.
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@RebeccasFarm (86760)
• United States
4 Mar 23
@sol_cee She was born in Ireland and had to lea ve here family and home to go to England and then here to the USA to work
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
5 Mar 23
@RebeccasFarm i love Irish English accent but I’m sorry tp hear about her sacrifices 
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@RasmaSandra (73444)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Mar 23
Glad your brother can keep in touch with technology I know that is very important. The dog is just adorable, How long will he be working there?
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@RasmaSandra (73444)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Mar 23
@sol_cee well I guess the compensation is the money he'll earn, being able to keep in touch, and two years will go quickly
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
3 Mar 23
@RasmaSandra yeah, time flies and I hope he could survive life there miles away from his family
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@moffittjc (118449)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Mar 23
I do not have any family members who work abroad, but I did have family members who served in the military and were stationed overseas.
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@moffittjc (118449)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Mar 23
@sol_cee I worked for the government in a different capacity, but I worked alongside many of our soldiers. The work I did was search and rescue and saving people, not shooting and killing people. Lol
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
3 Mar 23
@moffittjc good thing you chose a different path
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@DianneN (246838)
• United States
5 Mar 23
No one works abroad in my family. Sometimes my older son has to attend meetings in London or Dubai, but they only last a day or two.
I notice a lot of people from the Philippines work abroad. My neighbor's father works in the US and goes home once a year for 3 months to visit family and give his money to them.
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@Shiva49 (26202)
• Singapore
2 Mar 23
I left India forty years ago for Singapore and worked in Indonesia too.
Most of my family members are working outside of India.
It was not easy to leave behind my parents though my wife and later son were staying with me.
I took every opportunity to visit and look after them. They too visited us a few times.
Hope your brother's family can join him soon.
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@Virtually2021 (827)
• Southend-On-Sea, England
1 Mar 23
Yes, I am lucky that I have all my family members near me.
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