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?
Make sure you factor in the cost of giving birth in the USA. Even with good insurance you’ll end up forking a significant amount of money. Money that could go instead in a fund for your kid’s education… I came back from Australia to USA and promptly left, first to Mexico and now Italy…