The move is primarily for family reasons. What do I mean by that? Our kids lacked a sense of an extended family or belonging since most of the time it was just me and Bhavani. The once in 3 years trips to India or visits by their grandparents defined their family interactions. We wanted them to have more regular contacts both formal and informal and there was no substitute to it other than being physically closer to those people.
The other motivating factors were the much more realistic experience the kids were going to have in the areas of
- lack of resources
- lack of comforts
- seeing people up close who are less fortunate
Why is the above important? I feel that, often extreme experiences will help mould the personality better than a more homogeneous experience they typically have in US with all their friends and neighbors being of similar socio-economic background.
The third factor was the fact that it will be easier to become multi-lingual which has lots of advantages and very few disadvantages. It is hard to become multi-lingual in USA because of lack of people who constantly converse with you in that language.
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