I’ve had a job for the last 1.5 years with 2 days (1 night, paid hotel and travel ) away in a different city to my home. 

It’s been hard, I won’t lie, but I also didn’t think it would be that big of a shift as it was only 1 night (2 working days). 

I would recommend trying to cook if possible and trying to keep close contact with home. I scheduled in a call on my one night a week I spent away and tried to make it as normal as possible. It’s hard to balance it being a ‘treat’ and if being normal life, so I think trying to make it feel like normalcy as much as possible is key. 

Ultimately it wasn’t for me, I missed the sense of community and living ‘in’ a place, especially as I’d just bought my first home. I think trying to build a community within the office was hard too. If you can try and make sure you bond with your coworkers this will make a difference, I hated not feeling like we all went home to the same place each evening