There’s got to be a word for “I used to like my country and now I try to avoid it.”

Maybe in another language.

Begrudgingly, I’m on the way to the U.K.

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love the birks 🩴

The U.K. could really do with some sweet Kintsugi rn

disenchanted

Pretty Damn close!

Rushdie called it “disorientation”, but you’d need to be from the eastern hemisphere for that to apply

Aha. a reverse culture shock

Indeed. The disorienting sense of not belonging in the land of your birth

'Homesick' would be the closest in english if the word wasn't already taken. 😜

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Good point!

I bet there’s a word for it in German.

Don’t they have a similar word but it’s more about shame - To do with the war?