Cleo Shahteet has lived in Mandria, Cyprus, for three years, he moved there from West Virginia, USA with his wife and child. Out of the hundreds of reasons people could give for wanting to leave their home country, pure curiosity actually figures quite highly. Fed up with cold weather, lack of job opportunities and even just boredom can lead peoples mind to wander to foreign plains. Many people have more practical reasons for wanting to move abroad but for Cleo Shahteet, downright curiosity was the original reason he considered a life elsewhere. ‘At the time, things in America were difficult. I didn’t agree with any of President Bush’s policies and was starting to wonder if I should make my life elsewhere’.
Many people get fed up with unpopular politicians and feel frustrated with the way their country is headed. Depending on the media in your country, you can sometimes feel like there’s a better life elsewhere. But what gives people the push — to believe they can survive in an alien environment? For Cleo, he was absolutely sure he could acclimatise with different ideals and culture because he already had. ‘I was actually born in Amman in Jordan but moved to America when I was ten years old,’ he explains. ‘I was granted US citizenship and the place has always felt like home to me’. Cleo had made an exciting move before and had loved the country he came to call his own. But that was just proof that he could easily move again. Unlike most of us, the idea wasn’t even slightly daunting. [click to continue…]
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