Who has picked up their life and moved bc of COVID?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My best friend packed up the family and went to Helsinki. She's a Finnish citizen.

The kids are back in school full-time and everyone's doing well.

so she was done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is telling. Many of us want to leave DC.

I also find it interesting that so many can telework. I (nurse) and most of my fiends and acquaintances do not have those types of positions. So you really sit at a computer all day? I can't imagine. I am writing this on my lunch break, and I won't be on a computer til later this evening as I check email before bedtime.

I'm a lawyer so I spend a good chunk of my day at the computer, yes. But I also have a laptop that I can undock, so sometimes I'm on my porch or in my bed if I'm not in my office. Also, to me, being a nurse and being surrounded by needed strangers sounds like hell on earth. You couldn't pay me $1 million a year to do that job. So I can't imagine doing what you do. Different strokes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We left for the year. Moved about 2 hours away so our kids can attend in-person school. Going great so far and the school's precautions seem to be going well. Not a single case reported in school so far.

We'll be back next summer, assuming MCPS reopens for in person school in the Fall.

Did you move to another public school district or are your kids in private now?

[Anonymous]

I did. bought a beach house and plan to stay til the election is over (and anything related to that settles down). May never come back!

Work and school online and someone checking the mail at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
This thread is telling. Many of us want to leave DC.

I also find it interesting that so many can telework. I (nurse) and most of my fiends and acquaintances do not have those types of positions. So you really sit at a computer all day? I can't imagine. I am writing this on my lunch break, and I won't be on a computer til later this evening as I check email before bedtime.

I was in patient care for years and now work at home (8+ years) I spread my day out. UP early to check emails and days tasks. Kids out the door (thankfully in person school). Grab breakfast and back to work. Lunch is a walk/run/bike ride. Work then pick up kids. Usually check emails late afternoon, early evening. Like previous poster I usually try to find different working nooks around home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is telling. Many of us want to leave DC.

I also find it interesting that so many can telework. I (nurse) and most of my fiends and acquaintances do not have those types of positions. So you really sit at a computer all day? I can't imagine. I am writing this on my lunch break, and I won't be on a computer til later this evening as I check email before bedtime.

I'm a lawyer so I spend a good chunk of my day at the computer, yes. But I also have a laptop that I can undock, so sometimes I'm on my porch or in my bed if I'm not in my office. Also, to me, being a nurse and being surrounded by needed strangers sounds like hell on earth. You couldn't pay me $1 million a year to do that job. So I can't imagine doing what you do. Different strokes.

I'm with the nurse.

I would die of boredom sitting all day (oh my back!) looking at a computer. I'm a physical therapist and I spend my professional day moving about with my clients. Maybe I have ADD or something but I would not be able to sit as a way of work.

The front porch thing sounds nice though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a family with a SAHM. Kids and mom are staying with her parents in New England. Kids are attending in-person school there and dad goes back and forth between there and D.C.

Which NE state does not have a quarentine/testing requirement to go back and forth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left for the year. Moved about 2 hours away so our kids can attend in-person school. Going great so far and the school's precautions seem to be going well. Not a single case reported in school so far.

We'll be back next summer, assuming MCPS reopens for in person school in the Fall.

Did you move to another public school district or are your kids in private now?

We made the decision to move this summer, when the public schools here had not announced if they would be in-person or not, but MCPS said they were 100% DL. We thought we'd go public but they went DL, so we ended up going private. Now the public schools are open (you can choose 100% DL or 100% in-person, no hybrid option) but we'll stay with the private for the school year since our kids have made friends and they like their teachers. The publics have had a few isolated cases but no major breakouts and no schools have been shut down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is telling. Many of us want to leave DC.

I also find it interesting that so many can telework. I (nurse) and most of my fiends and acquaintances do not have those types of positions. So you really sit at a computer all day? I can't imagine. I am writing this on my lunch break, and I won't be on a computer til later this evening as I check email before bedtime.

Many? This thread is barely 3 pages..

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately I too sit all day at my job in front of a computer. I hate that part of it. Maybe that is why I train for triathlons in all my free time.

The good part is that I recently moved to Hawaii to live with my sister (after q'ing for 2 weeks) for the next few months. So there is some freedom with the sit-down part.

If i had to to it all over (I'm 17 years in) I would take a much more "physical" orientation to a career.

Off to a lunchtime run here on Oahu!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I too sit all day at my job in front of a computer. I hate that part of it. Maybe that is why I train for triathlons in all my free time.

The good part is that I recently moved to Hawaii to live with my sister (after q'ing for 2 weeks) for the next few months. So there is some freedom with the sit-down part.

If i had to to it all over (I'm 17 years in) I would take a much more "physical" orientation to a career.

Off to a lunchtime run here on Oahu!

OH SHUT UP!!!!

[Anonymous]

We are going to look at houses in the blue ridge this weekend and may just purchase one to live in for now and airbnb later. So not permanantly but definitely trying to get a change of scenery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’ve moved to England for the fall. We quarantined for two weeks, rented a farm house, my kids are in a private school. We have no connection here, just wanted to get out and shake it up.

Did you get visas? How did you do this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but only to Frederick, MD. Our workplaces haven't made declarations about how long full telework will last.

I've been looking at Frederick recently. How do you like it so far?

I like it! There is low inventory in the housing market so we wound up making some compromises, and we're a block outside the area we were hoping to be. But our mortgage is MUCH lower, we're in a very walkable neighborhood with character near downtown, my kid is doing all right in a small decent ES, and we're 15-20 minutes from tons of hiking. I look forward to enjoying beer, food, and cultural stuff post-pandemic. My commute to DC is going to be horrible but it won't be every day.

[Anonymous]

We moved to the west coast to be closer to family. DH’s job is full time remote (permanently for him and for all other employees until January). I work from home and when things get better, I’ll have to fly back to the DC area once a quarter for a few days. DH will likely not have to return to DC for work ever. We have more space and our kids have more family nearby. It was a difficult move but it was totally worth it.