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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]We moved away "for the quality of life" and moved back after 2 years. We just...never found our people there. No one seemed to care about the things that I care about (politics, travel), and folks were passionate about stuff that I find boring at best (sports, college football).

I tried so hard to find folks who shared my interests and values, but kept running into the same "types." Overinvested hockey moms, Pilates moms who think "mommy juice" in the sippy cup was the height of edgy, and uber-crunchy homeschoolers who didn't vaccinate and spent their time mocking the "sheeple."

Yes, DC is stressful and expensive and we gave up a big house in a leafy suburb (full of racist jackasses) to live in the city, use a lower ranked school than we had in Whitesville, probably work harder, but we're much much happier.

OP again - I could have typed this. I really appreciate the replies.[/quote]

as someone considering jobs all over and worried about what it really means to move somewhere totally unfamiliar (DH and I have lived only in urban coastal cities), would love a general idea of where you guys are....[/quote]

I'm the PP above who references overinvested hockey moms. I was in the suburbs of a major Midwestern city that is not Chicago, in a neighborhood that is constantly being written up as one of the loveliest suburbs in America, but I found it stifling and impossible. [/quote]

Oh man, YOU guys are my people. I'm in an extremely similar situation except I truly am stuck, since my husband is a tenure track professor at his dream university in a major US city.  I am finding it really hard to find my people and the sippy wine cup/hockey mom stuff is SO SO TRUE.[/quote]

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