Move family from Atlanta to London?

We lived in Brookhaven for a few years. We moved to London 6 months ago. You would be a Trailing Spouse. You might want to look up the data about the effects of being one. I find that Southerners have the hardest time living abroad. The food is always so different and they just always seem to under-estimate how much flexibility it takes. I know one Southerner here who flies home to the US 6 times a year to keep her homesickness at bay. I know another one in another country near here who had her husband exaggerate a reason for them to move back to the US after only a year. Definitely poke around the facebook groups like Americans moving to London/UK because they are really active and have lots of info on kids’ schools and stuff. If you have pets, it’s really tricky to get them over here. There are separate facebook groups for that. If your family has lots of laundry, definitely know that they don’t have American dryers here. Typically you have a combi machine in the kitchen that is noisy and takes about 4 hours to do one small load and the clothes still come out damp. The refrigerators and especially the freezers are pretty small here. Maybe you will live in a suburb and drive? Taking the driving test here is a big ordeal. Look into that. If you wont drive, you’ll be taking your kids on public transport. And that means you won’t have a car to keep your umbrellas and stuff in, so you’ll have to carry it all around with you. Grocery shopping can be a big ordeal without a car, too. And with the small fridges and freezers, you have to do it more often. Use the timing on google maps to check how long it would take to drive or use transport to your spouse’s job, because it is congested here and can take a long time to go a short distance. There are stats that the buses here go 6mph. There are lots of differences here. They don’t have window screens, garbage disposals, air conditioning. Store hours are short or closed on Sundays. Stores have a lot less variety of products. It’s a lot less convenient here.