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[For anyone who's new or hasn't gathered this already, I've spent a fair bit of my life living in countries other than the one where I am a citizen]. I am still constantly amazed at how much things have changed, even since 2002 when I was worked in China and Internet was common place.
Even though it's nothing unusual now, I was reminded the other day how fantastic the advances in technology are as I was chatting via my email account's chat function with my Argentinean hostmum who was on holiday in Ecuador while chatting with someone else in Australia. (Sounding a bit like an advertisement here, but still...it is incredible).
I love that a phonecall no longer has to be something special that you save up for once a month like the first time I went o/s in 1990 and given all the paperwork/logistics stuff that still has to be organised for my house back in Oz, the ease and affordability of communication is a godsend.
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