It was time to announce our heading back news to the friend circle and it was indeed a surprise to many - not surprisingly, after 15+ years in US, they didn't expect us to announce moving back for good. Common feedback was - "why move now? We thought you are well settled here !!"
I should say - until the last few months (i.e, until we had the offer from work and return tickets were booked) we had our doubts about move getting materialized as well.
It was time for all of those send-off parties and again more analysis of why stay versus why move. I should say we saw the full spectrum of comments - with folks who have made up their mind to stay saying 'US is the best place with best people', 'you can't find people whom you can trust in India' to 'In India, 'you will get cheated by everybody' etc etc. Many of the folks who were in double minds or were planning, wanted to find the 'secret sauce' that is needed for the move ! We did hear from several friends that - it becomes a topic of discussion between husband and wife with no concrete outcome at the end.
All in all, we enjoyed the parties along with the uncertainty of what the move could bring. Some of the concerns I have listed earlier were repeated in all of these parties several times, to the extent of being enough.
All of these parties stretched until the last week of the move, with we time sharing the visits to friends on the same day. We were glad to see that we have made a good set of friends during our stay in US and expected that these ties will last for longer time, even when we are not there physically.
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