In the cases of many, moving to another country for work can be a bemusing experience. But, among the hundreds of thousands of professional people who are living far from their home country, to experience something very different from home is occasionally part of the attraction for them.
For example, a French-born scientist called Veronique Briquet-Laugier moved to the French embassy in Delhi, trying to boost co-operation between French and Indian scientists. She said, "I wanted to get away from Old Europe. It is going to sleep. India is a dynamic economy and an exciting one." Start, her first impressions were well above her expectations. The airport and shopping malls in India were far better than she was expecting. But then she found it chaotic. She thought: 'What is this - I want to kill someone!"
She is still in Delhi, where she is no longer so likely to feel homicidally annoyed. She says she is enjoying the buzz and the "feeling of being part of something" more and more: "Indians are quite similar to French, they talk all the time. They are into politics and are interested in everything - I can see the Mediterranean in them! "And practically, it is much better here. We have a maid and a driver and we can order whatever we want to eat."
I thought that there are various difficulties by living abroad. But, people learn by carrying out strange experience. When the heart which challenges what was important, I felt actually.
By Rebecca Marston
Business reporter, BBC News
Published: 10 January 2012 Last updated at 00:04 GMT
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