Moving to Hong Kong!
We have officially decided to move to Hong Kong as off three days ago. While we were there, we took the opportunity to interview and after several weeks, and a couple of phone calls, received offer letters from different companies, both located in Central. My recruiter from PinpointAsia who helped me find the position, Vince Natteri, writes an excellent blog about running/hiking in Hong Kong: http://hikeinhongkong.com.
The most pressing issue now is to find a school for Toby. We have applied to several but they, and most others, are over-subscribed. Carmen is sacrificing the rest of the trip to take Toby to Hong Kong immediately and find a school for him to begin in August.
I will continue with Ethan and tie up some necessary loose ends in California, including shipping stuff over, before heading back via London and Dubai. Of course this also means that I have 8 nights in the Cook Islands with him, but this is part of the sacrifices that must be made to ensure all goes according to plan. Besides, the necessary work visa takes 5 weeks to process.
We were also poised for a move to Sydney since we were both interviewing there and demand /interest seemed high. I had already managed to squeak by in a couple of interviews, as well as some verbal, numerical and analytic exams with a local investment bank.
Now we will have to split up our luggage and both sign authorizations indicating that it's okay for each of us to travel with the kids, because of concern about cross-border child abductions.