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[quote=Anonymous]We did this last year. We moved to a very "cool" (as in hip, it's actually very hot here) city.  So many pros and cons.

Pros:

-So much less time at work.  Still a lawyer, but I work pretty much 8-5 instead of the 24/7 life I felt I had in DC.
-My commute is so short. Selling our house in downtown DC allowed us to buy in a super close in and very cool area of town. My commute to downtown is about 5 minute. Even before when we were living in downtown DC it took me 30 minutes to get to K street (either walking or metro).  So that's almost an hour a day I save. I can't imagine if we had lived further out in DC or in the suburbs. 
-We pretty much never worry about money.  We make about the same (it's a lot, we are both lawyers and our salaries didn't drop that much) but the COL is just generally so much cheaper. Even making what we made in DC I still worried about private school, etc. Not a concern anymore. 
-Generally laid back vibe. People don't ask "what do you do?" as the first question when they meet you.  People are friendly. People that work in the coffee places, restaurants, etc. are genuienly nice. It's weird!

Cons:

-It feels far away.  If you're a lifelong Northeast person (as we both are) it's weird to be in a totally different environment. No more easy 3.5 hour drives to NYC - it's a whole day of travel basically.  
-Flying direct to fewer places. Might seem trivial but we are big travelers and having to connect to a lot of places is tough. 
-Feeling "out of the loop." DH's job especially still has a lot of ties to DC/the Northeast and he has to travel up there a lot. 
-Far from family. While most of our family was not in DC, they were close by.  We know no one here. 
-Hard to rebuild community. We had lived in DC a long time and making new friends is hard!

Verdict:
-Knowing what I know now, I would still move. I have SO much more time with DD. I get home at 5:15, we all hang out, have dinner, it's so low stress. I sometimes look at my phone for emails, sometimes I don't. I am not sure we will stay here forever, but it's so nice to be here with DD being so young.  There really is no daily grind!

Happy to answer other questions!

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