Dear Prudence,
My partner and two kids (2 and 6) and I are American, but we have been living in a large cosmopolitan city outside the U.S. for about 10 years. Our life is great, except that we really miss being close to our families. My partner now has the chance to apply for a job in a beautiful rural northern area of the U.S., with work opportunities for me also, near where we are from, and that would bring us within a three-to-five-hour drive of both our families. Are we nuts to think about moving back to the U.S. right now? Or foolish to pass up an opportunity to be closer to family? For what it’s worth, our current country of residence has a more stable political system than the States at the moment but might not be that far behind its trajectory.
—Kings Here or “No Kings”