by The Seawolf » Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:24 am
Whilst I can understand why someone might decide to return home for the sake of their kids education and health - and I would never knock anyone for doing so - for me it would be a sideways, or possibly even a backwards, move.
My kid is growing up speaking 4 languages (admittedly 1 of these languages is an obscure tribal language), has dual citizenship, has friends from all over the world, is at an international private school and lives a financially comfortable middle class life here in an unpolluted (well less polluted) and quiet city with low crime and space to run the streets.
Home would mean secondary school education which is hit and miss and depends on your postcode, living in low price accommodation, spending weekends indoors or if out constantly supervised and certainly having no money to do anything as my job is poorly paid back home; along with growing up in the toxic, hedonistic, class ridden, money obsessed and backwards looking culture that is today's Britain.
For me its a no brainer - and is linked to why I myself left the UK permanently some years ago. I do go back to see my friends and family but I hope to never live in the land of grey again. It is a kasi. (imo)
Yes health wise things are without doubt far better back home but I have accepted this to the point that after the kid was born the first months of life were lived way out in a hut in the jungle. I have taken the Spartan attitude to child rearing. What is, is.
Whilst I can understand why someone might decide to return home for the sake of their kids education and health - and I would never knock anyone for doing so - for me it would be a sideways, or possibly even a backwards, move.
My kid is growing up speaking 4 languages (admittedly 1 of these languages is an obscure tribal language), has dual citizenship, has friends from all over the world, is at an international private school and lives a financially comfortable middle class life here in an unpolluted (well less polluted) and quiet city with low crime and space to run the streets.
Home would mean secondary school education which is hit and miss and depends on your postcode, living in low price accommodation, spending weekends indoors or if out constantly supervised and certainly having no money to do anything as my job is poorly paid back home; along with growing up in the toxic, hedonistic, class ridden, money obsessed and backwards looking culture that is today's Britain.
For me its a no brainer - and is linked to why I myself left the UK permanently some years ago. I do go back to see my friends and family but I hope to never live in the land of grey again. It is a kasi. (imo)
Yes health wise things are without doubt far better back home but I have accepted this to the point that after the kid was born the first months of life were lived way out in a hut in the jungle. I have taken the Spartan attitude to child rearing. What is, is.