Arik had a job opportunity at 32 to come to Boston and start a new company branch. He worked for a company that had to do with safety systems for airport runways, and he would be testing it for Logan Airport. He had to be there for four seasons to ensure the device would work all year round. "We thought of it as an adventure. I had been thinking about it for a while, even before we had the option to relocate." They were young and had only a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter at the beginning of their careers, so the change was doable. "If it were a different place, like France, or Germany, I probably would have thought about it harder, but Boston seemed the perfect place."

In the job that Arik initially came to do, he had to work a lot with federal government officials which offered him the opportunity to learn a lot about how the government system works in the new country which he knew nothing about. It was very different than in Israel. Israel is about the size of maybe New Jersey. He found this very interesting, as both Israel and the US had to deal with similar things such as foreign relations, but the US is just so much larger.

Arik and Avital want to eventually return to Israel, "at the end of the day, we feel like that is home for us." Arik, Avital, and their 3 daughters are all dual citizens, and all their extended families still live in Israel. Ori is now going to college, which is another consideration of where to live. "The world is a fairly small place, get on a plane, and within 10 to 12 hours, you're anywhere."