Sacrifice being in a foreign place for career progress?

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Hey /adv/,

Glad to be posting here.

I have voluntarily agreed to be posted in a country where majority people do not speak english. I am a programmer by profession and people in my office do speak english but not most of the time.

Having this been a voluntary decision, I am afraid of walking back on it and feel like I'll be letting down the people who trusted me and got everything done for me to be here.

But every day and mostly weekends are hard because its hard to be in an almost alien place and harder to not have people who I can speak to.

Going out to pubs and bars to meet people is hard because of language barrier. I've already tried a couple of times.

Continuing with this would definitely help my career as a programmer because I am working on tech that I haven't worked on before and its interesting enough.

At the same time, I am weighing the cost of progress of career with the daily (and mostly on weekends) loneliness that I am going through and not being able to identify myself as a part of the society or the people.

I am not sure if any of you have gone through something similar and have some words of advice.

Thank you!

PS: This is my first post on 4chan :)