👨‍💼 🌰 👩🏾‍🎨 Kiev-Stockholm-Kharkiv-Ivano-Frankivsk

Hello everyone! I know that topics about return emigration are of interest. I'll tell my story as it is - honestly and without embellishments.

My name is Maxim and I returned back to Ukraine after 1.5 years of living in Stockholm.

Why and why, you ask - to return from the developed country of the first world? Then, that only in Ukraine my wife and I felt peace of mind. The realization that you are at home, that you have relatives around, language, mentality is worth a lot. It cost us our lives and a possible future in a country from the top 5 world ratings.

It all started in 2015 with meeting my wife. She was already in love with the Scandinavian lifestyle then. Over the next 3 years, we traveled all over Scandinavia as tourists, even visiting Iceland. The wife was happy, constantly talking about how she wants to live in Sweden or Denmark, how she was imbued with the Scandinavian spirit and how much she liked the Scandinavians as people. In her then words - the Germans are boring, the Dutch are greedy, the French are suspicious and the southerners are too cheerful and careless. Only Scandinavians are exemplary people among whom you want to live. Everything in our apartment reminded of Scandinavia - from the book "Hugge" on her desk to furniture from Ikea and the words Välkommen on the rug. She even started learning Swedish and attended a conversation club.