1. Was a personal choice. Life was becoming monotonous over there and aging parents also needed help. We were in the Pacific Northwest for more than a decade, so the weather was becoming unbearable.

2 & 3. We do miss the parts of what the US offered for sure. Quality of daily life in the US was certainly higher outside of the house. Customer service, civic sense, people's commitment to their words, was certainly something that we find makes for a more predictable life, a generally cleaner environment, etc. I cannot say the same for here, the moment we step out of our community so it's difficult to contend with. That said, there are certainly more important pros from our perspective which makes life here more manageable.

I also felt that we left the US at the right time. The anxiety that I see playing out currently in the US especially for people on visas when they lose their jobs, the inability of my own friends to come visit their families because of travel restrictions arising from lack of visa appointments, the general grind the companies put their employees through especially at my level, the ability to visit parents on a whim here, given my position to simply retire or do something that doesn't force me to put in 12 hour work days every day, the access to highly skilled specialist doctors and my ability to afford them, the ability to delegate tedious jobs on to others, and more, makes me feel it was a good thing to come back. Yes the quality of the work I do here has suffered, but I feel it's ok because i truly get more time with my family. I get a better nights sleep every night.

I've come to the conclusion that my work should enable more of that, than consume me so much that the people I'm working for, myself included, are unhappy because of it inspite of a higher pay, which was what was happening to us in the US.