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?
If you have a secure support system that’s a plus. If they bugger off, no more support system where would you be better off? Remember health care, child care, time away from work, maternity/paternity leave in the U.S. are just suggestions. Most people go without these or are run ragged trying to get them. From what I hear Australia/NZ do a better job of making child rearing doable. The U.S. is not considered one of the better countries to have children in.