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My wife and I moved with our kids back to the country we grew up in in large part because of this. For us it wasn't just being closer to extended family, though that was a part of it. We just realized Western culture (we lived in Silicon Valley, which was probably the extreme of that) was very individualistic (or nuclear-family-focused), and people's lives aren't as intertwined as in other parts of the world. As an introvert, that was actually fine for some time, but once we had kids, we felt like it just wasn't a healthy way for our family to live and we were missing something pretty meaningful.





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