‘WE MOVED TO THE USA AND HAVEN’T LOOKED BACK’
Bobby Twidale, 57, and her husband Marcus, 58, from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, had the opportunity to move to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
‘If we don’t say “yes” now, they won’t ask twice – and we’ll always wonder, “what if?”’ That’s what I said to my husband Marcus when he told me about the three-year job he had been offered in the USA. It wasn’t the answer he expected.
No one would ever have described me as a risk-taker. In spring 2021, with the pandemic still raging, I had just completed a master’s degree after 30 years as a teacher. Our sons Isaac, 28, and Gus, 26, were building careers. They wouldn’t be coming with us. We would also leave behind our ageing parents, so the wrench would be tough. But it was a definite ‘yes’ from me. Marcus was promoted to be the president of a leading fishing supplies company after working at
