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

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Keep seeing articles about this. Who has done this? Is it working?

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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.

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We are about to do this. Just sold our house and moving across the country. Both looking for new jobs but we’re remote for the foreseeable future so why not.

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We did this. We were living overseas with plans to move back to the US over the summer. We came temporarily to New England (where family is, not where we planned to move in the summer) in the spring and then decided just to stay here instead of moving on to our ultimate destination.

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I would if I had family I could stay with. But our family is local and it’s too expensive for us to keep our house and rent a place elsewhere. Private school would be cheaper and we can’t really afford that either.

We can’t sell our house because DH makes a high HHI (I SAH) here at a job he loves. He goes in a few days a week.

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A family I know is moving to their (previously purchased) beach house in Delaware. They sold their place in Maryland.

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Anonymous wrote:I would if I had family I could stay with. But our family is local and it’s too expensive for us to keep our house and rent a place elsewhere. Private school would be cheaper and we can’t really afford that either.

We can’t sell our house because DH makes a high HHI (I SAH) here at a job he loves. He goes in a few days a week.

This is confusing.

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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.

[Anonymous]

We left for two months, but moving permanently for a temporary situation seems odd to me.

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Friends that lived in the city just did this. Sold their house that they bought only two years ago, temporarily staying at some resort in mexico, and WFH. No kids or pets obviously. But their move was because they hated the city, not because of covid.

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Anonymous wrote:I would if I had family I could stay with. But our family is local and it’s too expensive for us to keep our house and rent a place elsewhere. Private school would be cheaper and we can’t really afford that either.

We can’t sell our house because DH makes a high HHI (I SAH) here at a job he loves. He goes in a few days a week.

This is confusing.

Re-reading it I can see that. I didn't mean crazy high HHI by DCUM standards. I mean he makes "enough" ($250k) and couldn't easily replace his income in a lower COL city. So we can afford our life, but its not enough to send 3 kids to private school or pay rent out of town without taking from savings (which we don't want to do) especially since we bought an expensive house in good school district.

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Anonymous wrote:We left for two months, but moving permanently for a temporary situation seems odd to me.

I am the PP above who made an interim move to New England from overseas in the spring. We're struggling with this. We were supposed to be moving to a bigger city that was a dream move for us. We are committed to staying where we are for this school year but then we need to make some decisions. Given the recent news about vaccinations not being widely available until late 2021, it's hard to see how we'll feel any more ready to make decisions at the end of this school year, though.

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I know a few families who have moved. One from San Francisco to the midwest so their kids can attend in person school - this family intends to go back to SF and is renting their place there in the meantime.
Another family sold their place in DC to move to the midwest permanently. They wanted to be closer to family.

To the poster who said they don't understand moving permanently for a temporary situation: when your kids are little and you're really struggling to keep all the balls in the air, desperate times = desperate measures.

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We’ve temporarily relocated from DC to the Midwest to be near family who can help with our little kids while we work remotely. We’re planning to be here until the end of the year. We had to rent a place but no daycare + student loan deferral made that possible.

We have a love/hate relationship with the suburbs, not unlike we have with DC. But we do both love our jobs and those are tied to DC so I don’t see us permanently relocating. Though it is nice to be here for now.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a few families who have moved. One from San Francisco to the midwest so their kids can attend in person school - this family intends to go back to SF and is renting their place there in the meantime.
Another family sold their place in DC to move to the midwest permanently. They wanted to be closer to family.

To the poster who said they don't understand moving permanently for a temporary situation: when your kids are little and you're really struggling to keep all the balls in the air, desperate times = desperate measures.

I think there is a point also, when your kids are small that making a lot of changes is difficult. For example, if you moved this year when your kid is in third grade, moving again in a year or two years might seem hard as your kid would be just feeling like they are really settled in to their new home.