My wife and I were both coming to the end of our PhDs and knew we didn't want to continue in academia. We have a successful software consultancy on the side, an

My wife and I were both coming to the end of our PhDs and knew we didn't want to continue in academia. We have a successful software consultancy on the side, and have been teaching bioinformatics around Africa for a couple of years. We came to Kenya for the summer, then realised we had a much higher quality of life here, our work had much greater potential impact, and there was nothing stopping us from staying. So we stayed :D