Genuine question with no offence meant. Does that refer to bring back in the country or being back in the North East?
I ask because as much as I love back home and visiting, I get a similar sense after 3/4 days in Teesside. Up until recent years I have really enjoyed being in the South East and for such a small distance the weather, quality of living etc were really enjoyable.
Thats changed a fair bit over the past 5 years though and I would give serious thought to moving abroad though our kids are 7 and 4 so not the easiest move to make
Don't let your kids age put you off.
Kids are able to make friends and learn languages far quicker than their elders, particularly at that age of your kids.
It would be far more a difficult move for the kids if they were to be teenage.
I had just turned eight when we came to Oz and I was running around the ship playing hide and seek with kids from
Greece and Italy that didn't know a single word of English but that mattered little to us and we had a great time and formed lasting friendships.
Once at school those kids were soon doing better than me. They would go straight home and do their homework, I would go
straight to the beach and it wasn't long before they were teaching their parents words of the English language.
Our friendships grew and was educational for both parties. I helped teach them the language and they taught me such things that it was wrong and
sacrilegious to eat spaghetti from a tin.
My father gave me many words of wisdom but it was my father in laws words that were to be the wisest and most meaningful to me.
After informing him that my wife and I had decided to spend our large deposit on a house on a one year trip around the world instead and fully expecting
a gobfull after he had spent and wasted so much of his time driving us around the Sydney suburbs.
His immediate response.
" Well son when you get old like me and you look back through your life, You never regret the things that you did
but you will always regret the things that you didn't do "
I think that we should all keep that thought in mind when attempting to make an important decision.
I'm glad I did, I have no regrets whatsoever.