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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Move back. You won't regret it. [/quote]

there is no moving "back" - nobody lives in our hometown city (dc).  my parents retired to a mountain town about 2 hours outside of my sisters major city.  My husband's industry is in our city (and my industry is basically nonexistent in my sister's city).  They do the 2 hour drive to see her all the time because its getting them out of their little mountain town when they're bored and want to run to costco and hang out her with fam for a weekend.  They also are establishing all their ongoing healthcare in her city (versus big towns / little cities that are a little closer to them but not a lot closer).  I'd say they visit her probably about 35+ day a year (roughly a long weekend a month) as well as sometimes travel with her fam and me about 7.  And I am grateful they are close to family and have that connection easily and have her eyes on them, I just wish it could be me too.  But it can't without really turning things upside professionally for dh.  And it would be kind of nuts to ask him to "please take a major hit to your career and agree to a hit to our financial situation and our kids happiness at their current school to go live 2 hours from my parents so they can visit us once a month and i can take care of them whenever they start needing it".  I just really wish this wasn't the situation and we could easily uproot and move to my sister's city.[/quote]

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