WHEN ARE YOU GOING BACK? | Between Passports – Episode 18

Seven years. A mortgage. A dog. A career. A favourite café. Neighbours who knew her by name. Camila, from Mexico, had built an ordinary life in Sydney, Australia. And that was exactly the point. Then, at a dinner party, someone she'd just met asked: “So... when are you going back?” Going back where? To the apartment she sold years ago? To friends whose lives had moved on? To the version of herself who once thought Australia was temporary? The question wasn't really about geography. It carried an assumption: that her real life was still somewhere else. But one afternoon, walking through her neighbourhood, Camila noticed something. The baker asked about work. A neighbour complained about the weather. The woman at the café already knew her coffee order. None of them ever asked when she was leaving. To them, she already belonged. Episode 18 of Between Passports is a story about the quiet gap between building a life somewhere and being seen as someone who belongs there — and the moment you stop feeling like you need to justify why you're still here. Because sometimes home isn't where you were born. It's the place where your future has already started. 🎧 Between Passports — real stories about immigration, identity, culture and belonging. Have an immigrant story that made you stop, laugh, or rethink what home really means? I'd be honoured to tell it. Find out more at betweenpassports.com Between Passports — Do I hear an accent? #BetweenPassports, #Episode18, #WhenAreYouGoingBack, #ImmigrantStories, #Immigration, #ImmigrantExperience, #Mexico, #Australia, #Sydney, #MexicanAbroad, #LifeAbroad, #LivingAbroad, #Belonging, #Home, #Identity, #CulturalIdentity, #Diaspora, #MovingAbroad, #ExpatLife, #Podcast, #Storytelling, #RealStories