why do people find it hard to live in a foreign country?

Answer 1

First of all you need to try to learn the language of the country that you are living in
read up on the customs and cultural things from that country.Be as accepting of things that are different than they were in the country you left.Do not lose who you are or your own values but be open to new ones.
Americans aren't as hated as people would love you to believe. While the people in many country's may not like GWB and his so called policy's,they don't dislike the American people.
Americans are not ignorant of world policy,because we live in a very large nation a lot of people don't travel out side the USA.In Europe where its only an hour sometimes between country's its different.Europeans aren't smarter only different.I travel all over the world on business and I have never been treated rudely by anyone from any of the country's I travel to.I am polite and well mannered and I try to learn as much about the country I am doing business in and its people.That way I am able to understand them better.I don't think this question was meant only for Americans but I see the USA bashers like to use every opportunity to do so.
Unfortunately people are dying to get into the USA.We must be doing something right.

Answer 2

1. Language. It is hard not to be able to communicate with people around you.
2. Culture. What is good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable is very different from country to country. Starting from the attitudes towards loud music, to the questions about religion, to perception of history. For example, people who come to US from Russia cannot understand how the US, an anti-Nazi power in the WWII, can now support the pro-Nazi forces in the Eastern Europe; while people who come from Latin America wonder what is the big deal about that war anyway. Education and medical care, their quality and availability, are vastly different between different countries as well.
3. Climate. I have seen Indians in sandals walking in the snow. Climate change takes time to get used to.
4. Food. The smell that attracts visitors to a common eatery in Shanghai is nauseating to all but the most adventurous Western visitors.
5. Social and political order. Both lack and over-abundance of freedom shock people. So does the lack or prevalence of governmental authorities. Migrants from country A to country B may be shocked that the government tells them what to watch on TV. Migrants in the other direction may be baffled by the government tolerating street thugs.
6. Lack of the support network of family and friends. This is not limited to nostalgia. This network helps one to find a job, take care of children and parents, etc.
7. Diseases. Despite globalization, microbes are still different in different parts of the world. One has to build immunity almost from scratch when moving between, say, US and India.

Almost forgot: 8. Resentment by the locals. For example, if you are wealthier than them, you are perceived as someone who colonizes and takes advantage of them. If you are poorer, you came to steal or freeload of their hard-earned wealth, or to take away their jobs. Plus, you talk funny, look funny, dress funny, eat funny food, and all the other things from #1-7.

Answer 3

People are timid and afraid. And they don't like change.

Right now I live in Texas near Dallas and I have friends that have never been to Fort Worth, TX, Shreveport, LA and Oklahoma, all less than 2 hours away.

I have lived in Spain and Italy and visited at least 12 different countries and have enjoyed every one.

Answer 4

Most around the world people don't have such a problem. That said, Americans often have difficulty, because much of the world does not like America and Americans tend to be a bit more ignorant about world affairs.

Answer 5

They are scared of the unknown. It's hard to get a person out of their comfort zone where they know what to expect. Most people have a support team of friends & family where they are & they like that.

Answer 6

different foods, different customs, different medicines, different government and laws, different looks of person moving in and possible different treatment....