We do miss New Zealand but the fact is we could probably never have lived there. I was 50 this May 7th, I was 45 when we went and 49 when we came home. I am English and make no apology for that. I want my girls to learn English things, about kings and queens. I want them to know the Tower of London as their own. The stone circles, knights templar, roman roads, these are all such rich cultural rocks upon which Rebecca and I have built our own lives and heretage.
It is great to live in another country but you have to embrace it totally to feel at home. I would have felt like a visitor to New Zealand no matter how long we stayed. These are things you have to consider when planning a move. Write lists of things you will miss and things you wont. We don't regret going at all it was an experience. The thing about experiences is that they last for a finite time period, if they last forever at some point the experience ceases and is simply the norm, then it becomes life. I say this not as a depressing deterrent but as advice, things to consider. I suspect if you do consider and then move you will embrace the life and culture of you chosen country and never look back.
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