As Susan Sontang wrote it, "You can never go home". It's not there. It's changed. The people are older, have moved on, or more likely dead and gone. Your childhood home, razed to put up a strip mall. The entire country is Walmart and McDonalds, coast to coast, each one EXACTLY the same. I can't imagine what it would be like to be in your shoes, we clearly wear different sizes. As for Autumn Leaves ... there are colorful leaves everywhere. Have you seen the cherry blossoms in Japan? Or the old growth Black forest in Poland? Personally, I would NEVER consider doing what you are proposing. From my experience people move back to the United States to die, and "I'm not ready for that final disappointment", to quote Peggy Lee's signature anthem, "Is That All There Is".
