Can you explain what this means?
The grass is always greener on the other side.
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Hi Alan, thank for posting this question. I do know the idiom (or is it a saying) but I find it difficult to rephrase it with my own words in English…
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Hi Natalia,
This expression suggests that you always think that life/your job/your prospects would be better somewhere else but the implication is that you are really better off where you are.
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Thank you for helping me out with rephrasing it. We don’t have a similar saying in Russian maybe that’s because we are convinced that life in Russia is better than even in paradise 
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Interestingly enough we don’t have an equivalent to this saying in German. Apparently grass is more important in the UK and in other countries 
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Sorry, to veto here, Torsten, but I do know a proverb reading: the sweetest cherries always grow in the neighbours garden.
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Michael, believe it or not but I actually did not know that proverb ( ie Kirschen in Nachbars Garten schmecken immer ein bisschen süßer). I had to look it up 
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