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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Japan and moved to the US when I was 12.  I did already speak some English but was in Japanese schools.  The culture shock was pretty extreme, American kids are very different.  PP was correct, they were virtually feral and struck me (then) as incredibly mean.  I also have two friends who did the same thing (moving to the US from Japan).  One of them adjusted pretty well, the other ended up moving back to live with her grandmother to finish school there because she found it hard here.  But she was also quite a bit older than your kids, and her father was an exec with Toyota, so they had already moved around a bit.  She did tell me that of the countries they moved to (Netherlands and Austria or maybe Germany, don't recall) she found the US most challenging in terms of school culture.

Anyway, not trying to scare you off, just trying to give you perspective from others who lived it.  The big difference is that I did it in the 80s, my friends in the 90s.  So not that current.

GL.[/quote]

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