Reply to Tell me about moving out of the city/suburbs with kids.

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Tell me about moving out of the city/suburbs with kids."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a small (25 k) college town and am raising my kids in a mid sized (75k) college town. I lived in a city and suburban environment in between. There’s definitely a less competitive feel in terms of school as there are limited options. It’s really nice to be able to get from work to practice/game/activity in 15 minutes and then home in another 15. Or be close enough for a kid to walk. For me it was comforting going to school K-12 with the same group.

Opportunities for kids is a mixed bag. It’s great that a group of kids can grow as a cohort all the way up in a sport or activity, but it becomes challenging as there’s no where to go if that team doesn’t work out. There are a lot of cliques of people who grew up together and are now raising their kids together. When that clique dominates the activity your “outsider” kid enjoys, your kid will be the one cut even when they’re better than the coach’s best friend from high school’s kid. Of course this happens everywhere, but in my current town there are usually only enough interested kids to form one travel baseball, softball, volleyball, hockey, etc team per age group with a few kids cut with no where to go.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics