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[quote=Anonymous]My father recently had a brain bleed and is recovering. He also is, separately, facing heart surgery for a leaking valve and aneurysm. … I feel like these are signs that it’s time for me to seriously consider moving back home to be closer to my parents. It’s harder to take care of things, there are more things to take care of and their days are not infinite. 
They have a farm, which I would never consider selling, and I would never ask my dad to leave in his final days. … my mother would run away from the farm in a minute if given the chance.

I am a single mother with a one year old and three year old, so it would be a big move. I’d also be going from the middle of DC to deep in Trump’s red America (though my parents are wonderfully liberal).

My parents are very opposed to me moving back - which I think is them projecting a little anger at not leaving - but I’m not opposed to it. I just am scared at the reality of raising two boys in a red state where women’s rights have been curtailed, where transgendered kids are loosing rights, where guns are a point of pride, and a host of other things I’m forgetting but seem so different than our life here.

Has anyone faced a similar choice? Have you made it work, living in DC? Have you regretted your choice?

My parents are about a 15 hour drive from DC. If I fly, it takes about 7 hours door to door. So, it’s not an easy trip. 
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