Tough questions

When you live outside of your home country, you must ask yourself and discuss tough questions with your family.

The husband and I are thinking of buying another vehicle here. He's been all kinds of freaked out about the munchkins and I driving around in my current smallish vehicle of choice. The 'new' vehicle would cost more than what we paid for our current vehicle of choice. I refuse to drive a 'mum's taxi'. We're looking at used Land Rovers. Which brought up some other questions.....

Are the munchkins happy here?
Are we - the adults - happy here?
Are we ok with the current state of medicine here (ie we might have to start flying mum and Munchkin #2 home every few months or so for doctors)?
As we acquire more costly possessions here, how do we set up our paperwork to deal with sharia law (sp?) should, God forbid, something happen to the husband?
Do we really honestly and truly want to stay here for the next 7 years?

When we first left the homecountry, it was on a 2 year contract. We're now in our 5th year. And we're staring down 7 more here. We've got a dog, a cat, stuff that we own here that we like. Tough tough questions. At what point do you say, "It's time to go home."

As for the medical....it's weird. Docs are better in the home country with regards to Munchkin #2's medical condition. But, our medical benefits are WAY better living outside the home country. It's probably cheaper/better to fly home an extra two times a year than moving home to be closer to the docs. Totally utterly messed up!

The munchkins seem to be really happy here. The husband seems to be happy here. I have no clue how I feel. I loathe not feeling like I can take care of myself in this place simply because I'm a woman. Feeling so totally dependent on the husband is a horrid feeling. I don't care if it comes with a Land Rover with a leather interior and vacations in 5-star hotels - feeling dependent just because I have two X chromosomes is rotten. I live from plane ticket to plane ticket.

Tough questions.

Peace.