My husband and I, and two cats, moved from the UK to the USA in January 1990 after he accepted a job transfer with his company We have raised two children, lived in both rental and owned accommodation, moved house several times, gone through the Virginia state school system from kindergarten to college applications and have traveled a fair amount within the USA
Looking back on the company-provided orientation session we sat through all those years ago, I do not think it prepared us at all for the practicalities of living here, nor for the cultural differences…
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