How much would it take for you to quit your job and move back home?

[gegiroor]

On my end it is the opposite. I would love my children to grow up in Somalia. I tried in 2007 but after 1 year, they came back. I am planning to send them back for roughly 2 years insha'Allah. The choice is do you want to raise your children to be Somalis or Somali-looking westernized kids? I prefer them to be qawdhans.

Meh, there are ways to prevent your children from becoming too Westernized. You just need to talk some sense into them.

Somalia's education system sucks to be frank. Rather have them educated in the West.

Somalia has one of the best schools in the world - Amoud university being the front runner. If we (Somalis) built and run Amoud in the past 25 years, sure we can have world class elementary, middle, and secondary schools. My sister-in-law and her kids went to Las Anod in 2011 and was there for a year. When they came back, her son who was supposed to sit in grade 11 was tested. His math skills were rated to be much higher than grade 11 and was moved to one class up in grade 12. There are great schools in Galkacayo, Garowe, Bosaso, Hargeisa, and Mogadishu. Besides, If my memory serves me right, Wajeer district in NFD has a high school that has been rated to be the best - if not one of the best - in the entire continent of Africa. Moral of the story, schools in Somalia are not as bad as people make them out to be. Indeed there are schools in Somalia that can parallel any other schools you can find in any developed country. And the resiliency of Somalis have been proven during the absence of an effective government in the past 25 years.

[BVSNet]

Annual salary x 25 years, about $2.3 million dollars and some change plus cost of relocation and other expenses, so let's round it up to $2.5 million dollars. That's how much it would take for me to walk away.

It's not like you'll get a lump sum. All that money will be spent on stuff then you get a pension then you die