You'll always have some genius telling you that you are making a mistake, his kids love the 'international experience' and going to the 'American School'. He doesn't pay taxes, he's not going to take a pay cut and start over etc. As things continue to go downhill, the justifications for staying become ever more strident and convoluted.
I ran into one of these folks recently, years after I left the Middle East to resume my, uh, career back in the U.S.
He was with his new teenaged Filipina wife on Orchard Road in SIN. He and his wife had bought a bar back in the Philippines with his retirement money and you know the rest of that familiar story.
One thing I noticed when I left the Middle East, nobody asks you why you left, they ask why on earth did you go over in the first place?
