Do you have any friends in California. I say: I used to have a lot of friends ther

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Do you have any friends in California. I say:


I used to have a lot of friends there, but most of them have moved back to their home country.

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I used to have a lot of friends there, but most of them moved back to their home country.

What's the difference here? Are both okay?
 

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They're both OK.

There's no effective difference: they're not there anymore.
 

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Either of them.
 

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Did they all come from the same country?
 

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Then your sentences should end with "countries".
 
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