"The first year we lived in the US, we were in a gated community with other young families. Everything felt new and exciting - an adventure - just what we wanted. We arrived in the summer, and I remember loving the sun, constantly being at the pool, and spending endless hours with Freddie and the other young families in the neighborhood."
"Very randomly, in December 2018, my husband got home from work as the director of an engineering company and said he'd been offered the chance to relocate to the US . We all agreed it would be an adventure. Homeschooling made it that bit easier to move , so by April 2019, we'd left our home, family, and friends to live in West Palm Beach, Florida."
"We started homeschooling again, which I loved, and we moved out of our rental and into a house we bought. The newness of the move had worn off by this point. Freddie was very lonely. Although there were lots of kids in the neighborhood, he saw them only after school."
Clare Brown, a 47-year-old mother, moved from England to West Palm Beach, Florida with her husband and her nine-year-old son, Freddie. The family initially enjoyed a gated community and sunny summer days, with Clare homeschooling and running a homeschool blog while Freddie tried local school in September 2019. The pandemic in March 2020 prompted a return to homeschooling, a move into a purchased house, and the fading of initial novelty. Freddie experienced significant loneliness despite many neighborhood children because he saw them only after school. The relocation and shared homeschooling ultimately strengthened family bonds and created a closer family unit.
Read at Business Insider
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