The process of going native

I thought this chap summed up pretty well life as a transplant in the developing world. London is not as chaotic as Nairobi, but there is a parallel truth (and although I've never been to Nairobi, I can imagine the chaos as similar to other developing world metropolises). You develop a set of daily expectations in the place you live; when you move to a new place, these expectations are naturally and constantly foiled. You develop a set of new daily expectations based on your new place of abode. Only then does the newness make way for going native. Adventure, after all, is the process of forsaking the usual for something unknown (and hopefully exciting).

FT correspondent John Aglionby on his life in Nairobi, Kenya

https://www.ft.com/content/61444d46-622b-11e7-8814-0ac7eb84e5f1