My name is Alex Luch, and I created this blog to document my journey to relocate from Greater Boston area of the United States to a country the locals call Sakartvello, also known as Georgia<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I was born in Kharkov, Ukraine (part of Soviet Union back then) and grew up there. In addition to a regular school, I attended a music school since I was 4 and learned to play violin, which I practiced in various settings – youth symphony orchestra, local rock band and side gigs at restaurants (where I would be able to get free food in addition to a modest fee – certainly a welcome addition!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I attended and graduated from Kharkov Music College, and then moved to the US in 1994 to attend Berklee College of Music<\/a>, with a major in Music Production and Engineering. I graduated from there in 1998 and since that time I moved into IT field, where I worked for many interesting companies, including large enterprises (State Street Bank, CVS Health, IBM, Amazon\/AWS) and a few small startups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are curious about what I do for work, please feel free to visit my LinkedIn profile<\/a> and my consulting business site.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n By 2022 I was living in a nice house in Boston suburbs with my wife Julia, 3 kids and some pets: 2 cats, a dog, and 17 other animals. My wife has been in the US for a while as well, and we both were considering trying to move somewhere new and see how life is in a new country. After considering multiple options, we decided to move to Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n To support this move, we re-homed the majority of our animals (chickens, ducks, parrots, chameleon, guinea pig) and left only our two cats and a dog, who we plan to relocate with us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About us – our background My name is Alex Luch, and I created this blog to document my journey to relocate from Greater Boston area of the United States to a country the locals call Sakartvello, also known as Georgia. I was born in Kharkov, Ukraine (part of Soviet Union back then) and grew up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t