Welcome to the World, Icka. Membership as a non-national citizen requires that you become aware of EXACTLY what you've just become aware of; I'd forgotton about that little moment of 'Ping!' from when I loved overseas. **sympathetic wince** People really love labels, don't they? I got that "Oh, you're an American" realization/look from people all over the place in Germany, and you know, as insular as we are here, people are the same elsewhere; it's just a bigger pond. But yeah, I've realized that I liked living abroad an awful lot... which is beginning to make me think really, really hard about where I'm going to be in, say, five years or so. I *like* being a non-national citizen (my own phrase); maps look really different then.