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Thread: Living in Chagsha as a British husband with Changsha wife - What can I do?
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[quote=GUEST19248,66525]Hi all, I'm a British husband of Changsha, Chinese wife. We have one young son and my wife is pregnant with our second child. Basically we have a relatively successful business in the UK but recently my wife has become more homesick and is currently visiting family in Changsha. My first priority is for my wife to be happy so we are considering moving long term to her home city. I have a few concerns which some cannot be answered here however I would be interested to hear of anyone else who has similar experiences and actually made the move to China, good or bad. My main concerns are that my family currently live a good life in the UK, although the business takes much of my time, we need for nothing and live a stable, financially free existent. Personally I have also built a good network here and if I made the move would need to start from scratch, although I did this here in China it could be far more difficult. I hear of most British/US husbands moving to China with their wife and getting jobs teaching English but I'm used to running a business, not working for others plus the salary drop would be considerable to say the least. We are toying with the idea of running our staff and business from China via email, skype, etc but I worry that this will not work long term as our business is fairly hands on. My question is have any of you guys faced the same problems? How did you overcome them, if at all? We have good long term assets in UK which are not easy to manage long distance and although we have a very good cash pot I have no idea what I can actually do in China as I feel I would easily drift into depression should I just rely on their family or take a regular job. I also worry that although my son is mixed and currently adored by local Chinese he will find it difficult to grow up in a city where he will truly be a minority token foreigner. Me and my wife are below 30 yrs old which will also probably make me feel uncomfortable in the "ex-pat" community. I don't want to teach English or start an English School, neither to I want to try doing import export on a small scale. Ideas very welcome! Regards, D[/quote]
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