India, July 11 -- Living abroad is often seen as an exciting new chapter, but it also comes with challenges that many people do not anticipate. A former Google employee recently shared how spending six months overseas changed her perspective on life, career and even India.

The post was shared on X by Anu Sharma, a Forward Deployed Engineer who previously worked at Google, X and Intuit.

In her post, she wrote, "I've been living abroad for the past six months. Here are six lessons I didn't expect."

She began by saying that moving abroad had improved some aspects of her life while making others more difficult. "Your quality of life upgrades and downgrades at the same time," she wrote.

One of her biggest realisations was that living overs...