Your points are definitely true. Also, my s-i-l so wants my husband and I to stay in CZ. I wish the language was easier for me to learn, though. If we ever want to buy a place in CZ vs France, it would be easier having Hubby a fluent Czech speaker, not to mention the family support. Plus, cost of living is lower in CZ. As financial stuff may change, I see that as so important. I think I'm getting past "the dream" and settling into realism. It took the trip to help weigh these out. But I don't think Hubby is quite where I am yet.

You have a cool varied ancestry, Nammu. Speckled from all over Europe. To my knowledge of my family trees, I'm pretty much around 84% English/Scottish background mix, with about 15% Irish. That's even what my sister's AncestryDNA test indicated, with only vague mentions of continental Germanic (which is what a lot of English have anyway) and 0.1% Finnish. Who knows about the latter! The family tree is especially well-established on my mom's side, and only slightly less so on my dad's. My most recent immigrant relative was my mother's maternal grandfather's paternal grandfather (her great great great grandfather) from Dublin. Some of the rest came in the early 1700s, with some before. Most all first living or later settling in the Delaware River Valley (NJ/PA). So, it's hard for me to feel like anything more than an American of colonial settler background and specifically a central Delaware Valleyan.