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6-30: It is often not a good thing to move to a new city or a new country because of the loss of old friends?
Due to the development of the market economy and also the increasing process of globalization, people have more and more chances to change jobs which may require them to move to a new city or even a new country. Some people are unwilling to move fearing the loss of old friends. However, considering all the advantages and disadvantages , I thinks it is a good thing to move to a new city or a new country.
First of all, in my opinion, moving to a new place does not necessarily mean losing contact with old friends. In fact, with the help of modern communication and transportation technology, one can easily make contact with or fly to meet his or her friends even they are several thousand miles away from each other. To be more specific, old friends are those with whom we can share our sorrows and joys and those to whom we can ask for help when we are in trouble. In this sense, living in a different place from our friends does not entirely stop us from doing the same things, because with the help of high technology, we still can chat with friends on the phone or through the MSN, we can also get the recent news about them from their Face book, and we can even fly back to their city to go shopping or play football with friends when comes to vacation. In a word, there is no need to worry about losing old friends because of moving.
Instead of bringing the effects of losing old friends and the shrink of social network, moving to a new place can also viewed as a great opportunity to visit more places and make friends with more people . If you spend most of your time in the same place, the number and the diversity of your friends may be limited. On the other hand, if you have the chance to change your job and thus move to a new place, you will have more opportunities to meet more diversity kinds of people. They may be different from you in many aspects and hence you can learn from they a lot. For example, if you lived in New York and have been accustomed to the heated competition between workmates, then you will learn leisureliness and enjoyment from your new workmates in Paris. You may start to learn how to savor the red wine, how to appreciate the fashion show in Milan and so on. All in all, you can also make friends with residents where you are moving to and benefit a lot from them.
Apart from making new friends, living in a different place can also broaden your horizon and give you a different perspective to view the things around you and even the whole world. In fact, every place and country has its own culture which is resulted from its special history. Normally, this culture includes the values, morals or norms that are recognized by all people in this community. So, living with those people in their resident will help you attain another way of thinking. For instance, in US, young people will move out and no longer live with their parents when they become independent. When their parents are too old to take care of themselves, they will usually choose to live in the rest-room and their kids seldom visit them. But in Asian countries where the family value is very important in their culture, people there are thankful and respect to parents and thus enjoy the harmony of generations of the family living together. So once you live in Asian country for a period of time, you will be more or less affected by this value and when you come back to home, maybe you will think of and visit your parents.
In sum, moving to a new place does not necessarily mean a lose of old friends. On the contrary, it can also offer a good opportunity for you to know more new friends. Besides, you can also learn a lot from other cultures and benefit from that. |
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