30
Sep
I promised myself many times that I will work on being witty and upbeat when posting to my blog, and yet this is the second post in a row that has me in not very high spirits. To tell you the truth, it must be a function of spending the last three days in a boxed-up, and then fairly empty, house, of kissing my beautiful girls goodbye (for the next couple of weeks, anyway) and possibly of a couple of screwdrivers, easily obtainable in the Continental business lounge…
It is starting to hit me: My new life is about to start…
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26
Sep
I am doing it for the second time in my life. The times are obviously different, I am older, wiser - or so I hope - and wealthier than I was the first time I moved to live in a different country. It appears that there is both good and bad in comparing this emigration with my first one.
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23
Sep
I am officially on UK payroll effective October 1st. We have our work-permit visas, we found a very nice place to rent in London suburbia, our own house is on the market, we already sold one of our cars and some other house stuff and even held a garage sale - I guess, we are set to go.
The moving company comes to the house on the 28th and 29th of September, to pack and ship our belongings. Since we are not shipping everything, the house will remain habitable. I, however, will be flying to UK on the 30th, will spend a night at a hotel, and hopefully then will move into our rented place, which is, thankfully, nicely furnished. Natasha and kids are staying in the US through the end of October. I will be back in mid-October for a few days when we celebrate Becky’s 12th birthday. After which, we are off into the wild…
22
Sep
For those of you, who know us well, feel free to skip this post.
For the uninitiated, here is the context: My wife and I are relocating to England. We have spent the last 15 years of our life in the great United States of America, became rather assimilated (I am a rare Russian-American who knows and likes baseball, if you catch my drift), borne kids here, built up a comfortable living, achieved the proverbial American Dream…
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22
Sep
I guess for the very first post of mine I should warmly welcome all readers and wax eloquent on the subject of how this blog might change the world…
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