Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Should I move back to Mongolia

Should I move back to Mongolia?
I am an American citizen who fell in love with and married a Mongolian. We met in Mongolia where I lived for 3 years. For family reasons I came back to the States and my husband came with me (he is currently in the process of getting a Green Card). However, we are seriously debating moving back to Mongolia even though it is a "3rd World Country". Here in the US I have a job I hate that allows us to live comfortably but not to save anything. I had a job I loved in Mongolia and it payed very well. When my husband gets his Green Card he will start working, but won't be able to make much. In Mongolia he made a decent wage but had to work crazy long hours and there was little room for promotion. The weather here is much more temperate and we don't have to deal with heavy pollution in the winter (Mongolia's capital city has the worst pollution of any capital city in the world). Public School in our area is not the greatest, but we could never afford private. In Mongolia we could easily send our children to an accredited IB school. American hospitals have better experts but they cost an arm and a leg. In Mongolia health care is free, and for GPs the quality/knowledge is the same. Only for a sever injury would we have to go out of country. Here we are barely making middle class standards. In Mongolia we were easily upper middle class. My family is here. His family is there. Either way one or the other will be literally half a world away. We are not all that happy here and really want to go back, but in the long run we want what is best for our children...and the stigma that Mongolia is a poor devolping country makes one assume that the USofA would be that better life choice....but is it? I welcome all opinions...if you have any questions or need claification please let me know and I'll add/modify what I have here. Thanks, Anu
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i think you should do what you love thats the secret to life doing what you love sounds to me youd like to live in mongolia forget what your family thinks, Its your life. Is it fair that you be sad cuz your relative doesnt like your oppinion? no its not your life do it