Comments on: A sense of place

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:43:31 +0000

You’ll love Silicon Valley Ella! I’m a homeschooling mom of five boys from San Jose now in the UK and will be very happy to help you in any way I can with relocating there.

And I understand what you mean, I love it here but it is not home.

By: ella

ella — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:38:41 +0000

Really? I have it in my head that homeschooling is so popular in the US because the schools are pretty awful. It would be great to find just the right kind of school. Especially as the California homeschool laws seem to be in flux at the moment.

We do have a crunchy school here but it is just too far away for us (40 minutes – which is too long at this age).

Still burying my head in the sand about the whole move though.

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:16:47 +0000

geepeemum has a great point. When you were struggling with schools, I kept think “surely there’s a hippy crunchy school somewhere where the teachers and kids are KIND . . .” and on the Left Coast you should be able to find something like that, if you want it.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:12:42 +0000

Hope that all things will work as just as they are meant to. I know all too well about moving with kids…We’ve done it three times now. Of course because of the way the housing market is here we would be unable to sell our house, anyway, so husband knows it’s not an option. Funny though, because he often talks of moving to England or Scotland!

Kristens last blog post..A couple more and we’ll have a proper band

By: geepeemum

geepeemum — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:57:04 +0000

Hope the consultants are great. And you’ll prob find that the home schooling ethos is better for you – or that the schools are nicer!

geepeemums last blog post..More random catching-up sort of stuff….

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:18 +0000

One bit of good luck, as you’ve probably heard, is that house prices are down-down-down in your destination.

Consultants sounds good. And yes, they’d better BE good.

By: ella

ella — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:14:59 +0000

As far as managing, there are two words which mean the difference between this being not too painful and me being a desperate wreck: relocation consultants.

They’d better be good is all I can say.

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:26:23 +0000

Oh, holy cow. Assuming it’s a great career move for Matthew, how can it be managed to be least painful for you and the brood? Kids will adapt (we moved when our daughter was 4) but parenting through the madness . . . Wishing you good luck, and lots of other good things.

By: ella

ella — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:34:38 +0000

Yes. We’re waiting for visas.

But I’m in denial about it, in the vague hope that it may not happen.

By: cesca

cesca — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:58:11 +0000

Oh my god! That’s a rather huge change! Are you going to go?