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I Thought I’d Always Go Back to the UK — But Life Had Other Plans

August 7, 2025 by David Fleet
A dry stone wall in the Yorkshire dales bathed in lat afternoon light.

Since leaving the UK in 2014, I always thought it was temporary. A few years abroad. Some travel. A bit of life experience before I did the “normal” things people like me are meant to do — get a job, buy a house, settle down somewhere predictable. That was the plan. Until my first daughter … Read more

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