Currently living in AUS/NZ with SO. We’re going to be trying for a kid soon, but we have no support network here and no family to help out. I think we should move back to the States, where I’m 100% certain family members would come to help us out for as long as we needed. Given the distance, that just wouldn’t happen if we stayed in AUS/NZ. SO thinks we can just handle it on our own.
We wouldn’t need to find new jobs, as we can just transfer internally. Would taking advantage of your home support network be enough of a reason to back to your home country?
Thank you for this very valid comment- we have this ridiculous social expectation in the US that you need to have a dozen close connections and everyone helps everyone out all of the time and the kids should see their grandparents every week.
Other people in your life can be great and helpful, sure, but they can also bring complications. Sometimes less is more and it works out fine to just focus on your nuclear family!