We’ve lived in Durban, Joburg and Cape Town as well as Dar es Salaam in Tanzania but America is completely different to any place we’ve lived. It’s just so vast and contrary to most beliefs, it’s very expensive to live here. Our life is just really an existence at this stage and we are finding it very hard not having our family and friends close by.

The coastline here is grey and dirty and cannot compare to our beaches back home so we don’t get the ocean living we hoped for! We mostly stay home and do things around the house, get the kids off to school and watch a lot of TV! So certainly not the busy social life we led back home but it’s all about sacrificing for the greater picture which is hopefully to be able to offer our kids an alternative to SA so that they have choices when they’re older.