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n March 2023 I received an excited call from my husband. He works for an American bank and a relocation to Manhattan was on the table.
It would be a big career move for him and I agreed without hesitation. It seemed an enormously exciting adventure to drop into our laps, and our children — aged five and eight — were young enough to up sticks without too much disruption to their education. He signed a two-year contract, with the potential for extending.
It would not be our first stint as expats. We lived in Hong Kong for nine years and both kids were born there. The pandemic brought us back to coastal Dorset but we always hoped for another overseas foray before we settled
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