{"id":7,"date":"2023-04-12T14:01:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2023-04-14T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:18:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About us &#8211; our background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(country)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Georgia<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 &#8211; 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 &#8211; certainly a welcome addition!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I attended and graduated from Kharkov Music College, and then moved to the US in 1994 to attend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berklee.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">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<p>If you are curious about what I do for work, please feel free to visit my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexluch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">LinkedIn profile<\/a> and my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luchico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">consulting business site.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About us &#8211; 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&#8230;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymovetogeorgia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}