Exactly this time six years ago, we moved our young family back home from Abu Dhabi. Our friends in the Middle East thought we were mad, and in some ways we were. We were leaving eye-watering wages by Irish standards, and taking our children out of their free enrolment in a prestigious international school — with capacious theatres, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and achingly well-resourced classrooms. We were leaving behind the opportunity to travel to the most exotic places imaginable.
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