I moved my family to Puerto Rico for a job. They were miserable — and we returned to Pennsylvania after just a year.

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• I moved my family to Puerto Rico for my job — we were excited about the warm weather and beaches.
• Once we moved, we struggled to adjust and we felt a lot of loneliness being far from family.
• We went back to Pennsylvania after a year. I wish we'd thought about the move more before doing it.

In 2015, the opportunity to move from Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico presented...