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In reply to the discussion: What would have to occur for you to start considering leaving the USA? [View all]DFW
(60,377 posts)Although I moved here to be with my wife on a more steady basis, most of my work was already overseas, 95% of it in Europe. So I was here a lot for decades before I made the official move. Except for one daughter who settled in Frankfurt (actually, Königstein in the Taunus hills), all of my family is still back in the USA, so I return several times a year. My dad was a Washington journalist for 50 years, and due to people he introduced me to, as well as people I have met through them, and at Renaissance Weekend in South Carolina, I stay as well connected to Washington as I can. It's not "Bill" and Barack" to Clinton and Obama, but it is "Howard," "Jon," "Jerry" and "Mark" to guys named Dean, Ossoff, Nadler and Kelly. You can stay in close touch with people from afar easily these days without living across the street.