Our correspondent, based in London and away from his family, reflects on crafting a new kind of Thanksgiving. I Googled how to stream Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I suggested we watch that Thanksgiving classic, Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I warned everyone not to discuss politics at the table.” It was almost two years ago when my husband came home one day and said a recruiter had contacted him about a promising job in London. At the time I quickly put it out of my mind—he’d already considered a few positions outside San Francisco, from Portland to Mexico City, but none had panned out. Plus, we had a comfortable, happy life in the Bay Area with long-time friends, weekends in Sonoma...
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