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Why start over?

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Why start over? For what its worth, it’s never too late to be…happy! We´ve been back to Luanda nine years ago from London and I still can’t answer why did we came back to Angola.   I was born there 17 days after the independency day! Yeahhh Well that was not so good for me because it was followed by war until 2002! Yes, 27 years of war! So, when I was very little I went to Portugal for safety reasons, and only returned to Angola when I was 10 years old! Only then I met my mother’s family…more details later…and had to leave again when I was 17 with a vivid war experienced of 5 days closed in a small closet…and since then I’ve been around a lot… But first things, first, right?! Back to the question “why start over?” Well, both me and Kumba, when we decided to come back to Luanda, we had a memory of what was in our childhood and it had changed a lot. Back then, everybody was a friend of everybody! Neighbors helped each other and ev

Brave or Stupid??!!

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So, 4 weeks ago, we moved from Luanda to Houston! Yes, the five of us, just did it! We have been planning this for so long…google is for sure my best friend and F7 (spelling on word) my 2 nd best friend as English is not my mother language, its Portuguese…but if I’m being honest I also use the spelling when writing in Portuguese… Anyway…we google about everything…best schools, best USA city to raise a family, best jobs opportunities, immigration lawyers, tax accountants… We also talked to friends who have been in USA, and finally we decided it was time to just do it…and we choose The Woodlands in Houston. First it was a nightmare to tell family and friends about our “crazy” decision…we had bad discussions and hear things like “are you crazy? You are 41 and Kumba (husband) is 50…with 3 kids?? Are you completely out of your mind? But guess what? We were really crazy decided to do it… We had our savings, and we started the life dream project plan … First