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?
Pop out one kid, evaluate how difficult it is, then decide? .
NZ probably has better free education than most states in America. It probably has better healthcare too. No school shootings either. Ideally, I would choose to raise my family in NZ long-term and send them to a university in the states.