You Can’t Go Home Again (or Can You?)

S M Chen
5 min readOct 28, 2024

In 1940, a work by Thomas Wolfe, American novelist, was published posthumously.

It was entitled, “You Can’t Go Home Again.”

Book cover

It was part of something told Wolfe by Ella Winter, an Australian-British writer.

Wolfe liked the phrase enough he asked Winter for permission to use it.

There has been a lot in the news about people relocating.

Some go east from the USA, to places such as Europe, where the cost of living may be less.

Think Spain, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Croatia, etc.

Or even farther East to Asia, such as to places like Thailand, Cambodia, or South Korea.

Some even go west, to places such as Japan.

The cost of living in Japan is high, but the country may have other amenities some like.

Others travel south, where the cost of living in various countries of central or south America may be less than in the USA.

Argentina, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, etc.

And, unless you’ve been living under a rock or at the ISS (international Space Station), you’re well aware of the multitudes who are trying to go north from central and south America to the USA for (hopefully) a better life.

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