Call it the not-so-Swede life.

Married mom of one Courtney El Refai has one of the longest commutes in Sweden — 5,000 miles each way to California, where the US expat works as a part-time per diem NICU nurse.

Sound exciting? Think again, the frequent flyer revealed. 4

“Everyone seems to think that life between two countries is the dream, but let me tell you why it’s not,” El Refai, 32, explained to her more than 11,000 Instagram fans, in clip titled “The not so glamorous life of dual living.”

Online, however, she gave virtual viewers the down low on the lows of being bi-continental, which include constantly readjusting to a nine-hour time difference, feeling disconnected from loved ones in both locations, living out of suitcases and never quite feeling “100% home in either place

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