Hi VenusHalley,

you're asking the right questions, all the things about being in a foreign country do apply, just not to the degree you might think. I lived in the US for quite some time, but I'm not American. Sorry for being so cryptic, I'd love to actually answer with specifics, but it would be really easy to identify me if, by some coincidence, somebody who knows at least some part of my story reads this. And actually if I'm thought of as unstable, it would finish off my career once and for all (it's nothing very secret, but our international community is very small, and ability to be rational and logical, very energetic and mobile is a must).