In 'Romeo and Juliet' by some English writer you may have heard of, Romeo kills a guy and instead of being executed, he`s banished. I dare say angry elders in Verona wrote to their local newspapers bemoaning the wishy washy liberal sentencing policies of the day, but that`s probably because they didn`t have a clue what exile feels like.
I haven`t set foot on the soil of the land of my birth for over 6 years, and haven`t lived there for nearly 10. Believe me, no matter how nice the country is where you live, if you can`t go home it is a form of living death... That is partly why around 90 per cent of English teachers in Japan leave within 3 years.
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