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Cake day: November 29th, 2023

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  • The hardest thing about raising a family in a country that’s not your own is being away from family. Children only building a tenuous relationship with grandparents - FaceTime doesn’t cut it. Rare visits with cousins. No backup child care. Your parents will start to age, much faster than you expect, and you won’t be around even as you know their good years are numbered. That’s very hard.

    The rest - raising your kids with complex and complicated linguistic and cultural identities, identities that will be fundamentally different to yours, the cultural differences in child rearing norms, educational systems, values… the rest has some good and some bad. It’s up to you to decide if you can make the best of the good and live with the bad.