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[quote=Anonymous]I know two people that did this, with mixed results:

First one was a family where husband and wife were both from the Boston suburbs. Their second child was born just before Covid, and they quickly outgrew their DC rowhouse. They're very outdoorsy/into skiing, and they missed that lifestyle in the DC area. Both their jobs were 100% remote, so they moved to a small town in Western Mass, where they were closer to their parents than before, but didn't have to pay Boston COL.

While it was great at first to go skiing on a whim, and see their parents without driving all day, they found their small town very provincial, in that everyone knew everyone else, and was hard to make friends. Similarly, finding child care was a challenge, as most of the child care there was designed more for people who needed a few hours of child care, not for those who needed five days a week. The last straw was that one of their children developed some medical issues. There weren't any doctors who specialized in this type of care in their area, so they had to drive closer to Boston to receive adequate care. Eventually, they moved to the outer suburbs of Boston.

The second couple was from Central PA. Loved living in NOVA, but both their families were in Central PA. When their son was born, it was a challenge to find gap care when he was sick, and both parents needed to work. Additionally, making the 3 hour drive back home to see their famililes more and more frequently was wearing on them, so they moved 15-20 minutes from both sets of parents. It was great to not have to worry about gap care if their kid was sick, but similar to the first couple, they found it very challenging to make friends. Additionally, they also found the politics of the area to be a bit offputting. [/quote]

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