Relocating Family to Argentina

[2ski]

I'm not sure how homeschooling could do a worse job that what most public schools have been doing for the past few decades. There are tons of online tools available now. There's frankly a lot of wasted time in a public school day even if you don't count the time to go to school and get home.

I'd strongly consider homeschooling if I had any school age kids. Homeschooling vs public schools are frankly close to opposites. Completely individualized lessons vs being part of a class with kids of many different abilities and behavior issues.

 

[left field]

The most interesting people I know are those who lived abroad as kids.

Patagonia is great. I wouldn't hesitate to move my young family there once you work out the details.

This move benefits 1 person: you. So if you do it, you better own that and not make any cop out bs excuses about how is better for everyone else and you're a martyr just going along with it. I propose a couple experiments before jumping in:

2. Buy plane tickets for your whole family from wherever you currently live to the furthest point in the u.s. and back again with no dwell time at the destination, keep yourself in airports or on the plane the entire time. Try to recreate the trip duration from your inlaws house to Argentina. Keep a log of how you feel during the trip, how your kids are, and how much fun you have.

Are you suggesting he fly from one side of the country and back again in one day just to see how his family will handle a 12-hour flight.

Here's how ... it will suck. As all flying does these days.

But at the end of that shitty day they will be in Argentina, embarking on the adventure of a lifetime, and the plane will be forgotten five minutes from the airport.

 

[Terrapin]

There is an option to homeschool or local school. My mom taught at “international schools” all over the world. The schools are very rigorous academically & cater to expats, diplomatic staff & the children of foreign business executives. Think school uniforms and classically trained educators… maybe a little rulers on knuckles.

Not cheap, but an interesting option that I would consider if I wanted to live internationally & had the financial means.


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[Coveyleader]

The most interesting people I know are those who lived abroad as kids.

Patagonia is great. I wouldn't hesitate to move my young family there once you work out the details.



Are you suggesting he fly from one side of the country and back again in one day just to see how his family will handle a 12-hour flight.

Here's how ... it will suck. As all flying does these days.

But at the end of that shitty day they will be in Argentina, embarking on the adventure of a lifetime, and the plane will be forgotten five minutes from the airport.

Actually that is true, but what isn't true is once you get on an international flight, and are being taken care of by international flight attendants, they take it as a profession, and the flight is actually more enjoyable. Once you take the connection in that country, i.e. Arg, it will even be better. US flight attendants are hags, on the other side of being happy.

I'd take a 10 hour flight from Miami or Houston to BA any day over a LA to NY flight. As a matter of fact, I'd take a round trip the same day back and forth from ARG before I'd do a one way here in the US.

 

[IdahoSwede]

I lived there for 3 months in college. Empanadas. How I miss all the empanadas.

 

[left field]

I lived there for 3 months in college. Empanadas. How I miss all the empanadas.

And ice cream, steak, and wine.

But yes, the empanadas are next level.

 

[IdahoSwede]

And ice cream, steak, and wine.

But yes, the empanadas are next level.

So true. Don’t remember the ice cream but the steak and wine. So cheap back then too. Probably not so much anymore with the inflation problems they are having.

 

[left field]

What I loved was the 10 levels of cooked temp for a steak that they hit every time.

 

[5MilesBack]

As a matter of fact, I'd take a round trip the same day back and forth from ARG before I'd do a one way here in the US.

Yep, we lived overseas for 6 straight years in two different places. We made the round trip international flights 7 times with the kids in that time. Most of those flights were excellent, and me being 6'6" they really went out of their way to always get us good seats with legroom.

As for homeschool, our two oldest started homeschool from the beginning and then switched to public school later on. Both were immediately put in the TAG programs (talented and gifted) because they were so far ahead. Both took most all of the AP classes offered and got college credit for them. Both graduated with very high GPA's.

Compare that to our youngest who started in the public school system here in the highly touted district 20. She always got straight A's but when we started homeschooling her in 7th grade.......wow, we discovered just how far behind she was.

As for Argentina, I was just telling my wife a few weeks ago that I would really like to take an extended trip down there for a couple months during their summer. It's an interesting place.