In Moscow, despite the hardships, life as a family was great. Mainly because we lived across the parking lot from my office. I was a very popular boss. We couldn't re-create what we had, but we could try and come close. We bought a house within ten minutes of both of our offices.
School is within a three minute drive.
We chose our house based totally on the ability to have a pool, swing set, a big yard and secure place for biking right at our house. The friends of the kids come to us, and that means Mom is not juggling five different play dates every other day. Let's see if we can reduce the carry-on luggage by a bag. Our nanny is critical as well to all of this. We met Juliet in Japan, where she had moved from the Philippines.