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Would you ever leave DC? If so, where would you move?
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Anonymous
| San Francisco! |
Anonymous
OMG! I dream of doing this ... but I hear the cost of living there is almost hire than DC! |
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I would love to go back home to Prague. I am so homesick but we are stuck here in the US b/c of my American husband.
If not back to Europe, then a smaller town. But I often wonder, so late in life, how do you start a new community? I know it is easy to meet people through kids/neighborhood but I think it is far easier in DC since people are used to reaching out. I hear it is harder in towns where population is not that transient...can anyone speak to that, maybe from experience? Places like Charlottsville, Raleigh, MOntana, that you all mentioned? |
Anonymous
Why not move somewhere else in the DC area where you might find more like-minded people? What is it that you don't like about people in NW DC? |
Anonymous
I think we'd move to Pittsburg in a heartbeat if we (or even one of us) got a job there. We're so tired of the traffic and crowds here...it's just getting on our nerves. That said we have lots of friends in the area and all our family lives on the east coast so I don't think we'd go far. But suburban PA is looking really nice right now  .
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Anonymous
Where in NE Ohio, pp? (ex-NE Ohioan here) |
Anonymous
| Don't want to leave but I wonder if we can afford it when we retire. I think we'd stay in the area. Thinking maybe a place like Sheperdstown? But then a pp mentioned Bmore. I could go for Bmore. I like that idea. |
Anonymous
My thoughts exactly! We lived in NWDC for a few years and are much happier out in the N.Va. 'burbs, where we have a GREAT sense of community. We love where we are, the kids love it, love our schools, etc. I don't want to move, but if we did, it would be further south for sure. I am from NJ/Phila suburbs and am SO glad to have escaped. Wild horses couldn't drag me back there. In northern NJ, people are rude & abrupt, but at least there's some culture in the NYC 'burbs. In southern NJ, they're just as rude but with not much else to offer. Plus I cringe every time I hear that awful S. Jersey/Delaware accent; no way can I risk my kids learning to say "wutter" instead of "water." We would love to live in N. Carolina; if we didn't like it here so much, I think that's where we would be looking. |
Anonymous
Yeah, it's not like they have jobs or anything to distract them from socializing. |
Anonymous
People are rude and their children are entitled brats. We are beginning to look at other areas. I really don't want my kids to be raised in this affluent bubble. Nothing good comes of it. |
Anonymous
You are dismissing DC and the entire surrounding area on this basis? Where do you live exactly? (I'm curious because I can see that in some areas, but certainly not the entire DC metro area.) |
Anonymous
| I wish we could live in California or maybe even New Orleans, but the jobs thing... DC is a great place for jobs, so I suppose that's why we're all here. |
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11:30 - high five!
The locals have absolutely no idea, because it is all they have ever known. Which makes them one of the reasons most of us can't stand it here. Boy would they be enlightened if they truly experienced other places! My MIL had no choice, she was just glad to get out of her own hell town, so they pretty much epitomize the same. If you've known better, it's that much better Cue the "then leave" posters that make it so pleasant here.
Great question OP, it is nice to know there is light at the end of the tunnel! I would say...hmmmm... just about anywhere else. Cheers. |
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Not attaching, just curious, how many of you have visited these places with an eye towards moving versus just having a romanticized view of these locales?
For fun, check out the quiz at www.findyourspot.com DH and I have both played with it and it's given us some very interesting results to consider. (It does have its flaws but overall not a bad way to spend 10minutes) |
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Absolutely agree. No one should move before visiting. DH and I moved to Kansas City after being burned out by the rat race here. Within six months we were miserable. Then the recession happened, and I could not find a job for the next THREE YEARS. I don't want to sound melodramatic, but it really hurt my self-esteem to be out of work for so long. We finally moved back and I was employed within a week of living here
Love it here. Wouldn't go anywhere else. |