• My family lived in New York, California, and Connecticut before moving abroad.

• In school, my kids have kids from 40 different countries.

• My kids are treated like responsible people and I’m not expected to manage their lives.

My husband and I have three kids and four pets, and we’ve moved a lot in search of the American dream.

We started in New York, but after our first baby’s open heart surgery, we returned to the Bay Area, where I’d met my husband Lynn. We missed our laid-back, California progressive-style life, and we wanted our kids to grow up outdoors, around creative thinkers.

We hoped for…