Eva Thorsdottir
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Why I moved to Lisbon, Portugal
Here I am, just turned 23, and I find myself living in Lisbon, Portugal. The story behind how I got here is one that I hold close to my heart. My boyfriend and I moved here together after being in a long distance relationship for about seven months. I was living in Iceland after some green card complications. You see, this is my birth place. I hadn’t lived in Iceland for fifteen years. When I got there, I was totally reintroduced to my entire family and homeland. Although the whole experience of being there was life changing, I was still in this relationship that I very much did not want to leave, but couldn’t handle the sadness of long distance. The six hour time difference plus living totally different lives was hard for both of us. The effort was there for both of us, though. He flew to Iceland, I flew to Tulsa, and at one point we flew to Canada to meet in the middle. We wanted to make this work. So we picked a place where it would be cheap, easy to do remote work, and beautiful: Lisbon. I arrived on December 28th and him shortly after.
By Eva Thorsdottir4 years ago in Wander