This brings me back to my gripe about those emigrants who feel it necessary to repeatedly explain to you why they left and why they don't regret the decision. Only to yourself. So let's talk about something else. Emigration is not easy. When I worked temporarily in Australia, a psychiatrist I met told me that the bulk of his practice consisted of South Africans battling with the adjustment.
Emigrants tend always to be foreigners, destined never properly to belong.
Their children, of course, are far more flexible, quickly taking on the habits, accents and manners of their new country and assimilating more easily. More than once, usually late at night after some glasses of good Aussie wine, the odd SA emigrant would confide that he or she missed home and would happily return but for the fact that the children now thought, spoke and acted like the Australians they had become. Others, of course, have no regrets whatsoever. They adjusted quickly and made happy and fulfilling lives and careers for themselves and their families. I say good luck to them.