I Went Back to AMERICA After 2 YEARS in COSTA RICA, It Didn’t Feel Like HOME Anymore

After 2 years in Costa Rica, he went back to America for good 🇺🇸 He lasted exactly 9 days ⏳ On the 9th night, the lights went out… and he found out what "home" really means 🇨🇷 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ 44 years as a union electrician in Dayton, Ohio 🌎 An earthquake that cracked the wall over his bed 💍 A barn wedding that cost more than his first house ☕ A $6.40 cup of coffee and a machine that yelled at him 🔦 An 81-year-old neighbor nobody on the street knew ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Curtis loves America. But after two years of "buenos días" from every porch, a closed garage door felt like a wall ❤️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Have you ever moved back home and felt like a stranger? Tell us in the comments 👇 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to The Costa Rican Life for more real-life stories of Americans starting over in Costa Rica ⚠️ This story is a dramatization inspired by real experiences of American retirees. Names, places and details have been changed.