I've already moved to Argentina from Spain
A few days ago I published a very special video. I went back to live in Buenos Aires after 23 years in Barcelona. It wasn't an impulsive decision, nor a simple one. It was a long process, full of emotions, deep questions and a need to listen to what I really felt.
In this article I want to share a written version of everything I told in the video. Maybe you've felt the same way at some point. Maybe you're in that moment where you question whether to keep going, return or change. Or maybe you're simply interested in knowing what someone who decided to return to their country goes through.
What does emigrating mean to me?
I've always defined emigrating as crossing a line from which there's no return. Only those who've lived it know. Once you emigrate, you coexist with an internal duality forever. It's a constant mix between what you gain and what you leave behind. You start discovering new ways of living, new cultures, new opportunities... but you also realize everything that's no longer there. What's lost isn't just physical: it's a way of being in the world, of connecting with your environment, of feeling part of it.
And even though you build a new life, even though you adapt and even fall in love with the new place, something about you always floats between two worlds. There's no perfect home. Something will always be missing. And even if you return, that feeling doesn't disappear. It transforms into part of who you are.
I believe this experience is tremendous, for better and worse, I wouldn't change it for anything, because I feel I grew, matured, learned, and I'm proud to feel part of more than one place. Of course it takes time, there are a couple of logical years to understand and listen to yourself, but when you do, I think the benefits are very good.
My experience living in Barcelona
Barcelona was my home for more than two decades. It shaped me, gave me a different way of seeing life, another culture, stability, opportunities. There I grew as a person, as a professional, as a human being. I learned to live at a different pace, to enjoy different things. I also experienced losses: leaving my neighborhood, my friends, part of my family. But I gained a lot. And that's why Barcelona will always be a part of me.
Spain is a country that showed me you can live in many different ways. In a single day you can feel like you're in several countries at once: the diversity of culture, personality, languages... it's something unique. I lived with different economic stability, with another quality of life, and that also showed me about how I want to build my day to day.
It gave me so much that I can only feel gratitude. Not just for what I lived, but because it allowed me to grow, know myself, challenge myself. But over time I also started to feel that something had been fulfilled. Not as something negative, but as a cycle that closes with gratitude.
What I was feeling and what I'm going to do now
Two years ago I went to live in Malta, an experience that confronted me with my fears and forced me to listen to myself. When I returned to Barcelona, I started imagining another life. And I felt that Barcelona was no longer enough.
Today I'm in Buenos Aires. I'm going to stay for a few months, see what I want, without pressure. I also want to explore places in the country I don't know, reconnect from a different place. I'm giving myself space to feel, to process and decide the next steps.
And the question is, why did I come back? I came back because I felt it. Because I needed to. I love Buenos Aires, it's my other half. I always say you can live in more than one country, and I'm proof of that.
The possibility of living in 2 countries in the future
More and more people live divided between two places. And far from seeing it as a problem, today I think of it as an opportunity. There are things I love about Barcelona and things I love about Buenos Aires. And if I learned anything in these years, it's that you don't always have to choose just one. Sometimes, balance is in allowing yourself to have both.
My EchoRoute project and the Tesla
EchoRoute continues to be a very important project for me. The idea of traveling the world with the Tesla and documenting it is still on. But right now, it's on pause. I couldn't bring the Tesla as planned, and that made me stop. Not abandon. Just pause. Projects also need to accompany life moments. And today my moment is this.
