Settling In
Four questions for the first year
A review to run at six months and again at twelve, when there is no checklist left and it is genuinely hard to tell whether a household is making progress.
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Settling In
Settling In
The paperwork of a previous life gets harder to obtain every year
Evidence of who someone was in Vietnam is easy to obtain in the first year and progressively harder afterwards. Almost nobody collects it until it is needed, wh
Settling In
Some things only elapsed time can produce, so start them before you need them
Effort shortens most tasks. A few cannot be shortened at all, because what they require is months passing. Those are the ones to start in the first weeks, long
Settling In
Nothing you built in Vietnam came with you, and that is a records problem
A person who was established, creditworthy and professionally respected arrives with none of it visible. Understanding why that is a records problem rather than