A hollow victory, 'Yank.
Foolin' me has to be one of the easier things in life there is.
In any event, welcome home.
Wished I could say it's safer here; but then, we've already had our one, daily alotted laugh, eh? :o)
Your uncertainty concerning returning to the pacific rim?
Reminds me of something which happened to me some 8 years ago.
A dear friend of mine moved to Charlotte, NC.
At some point he tired of my emails whining about Liberal Illinois, where I'd been living at the time -- as opposed to his new [more] conservative home in NC?
He suggested I pack-up Ma and my business & move down to NC, closer to him.
I told him I'd sure enjoy the area & people, alright; but, I suspected I was badly needed in the Champaign-Urbana area, more.
One of my more ideologically pious moments, I like to believe. {g}
...hell's bells; the net-effect was to shut me & my whining up, forevermore.