Reply to Afraid of leaving DC for the burbs bc think I'll lose my whole social circle. Thoughts?

Forum Index » Real Estate

Reply to "Afraid of leaving DC for the burbs bc think I'll lose my whole social circle. Thoughts?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]In all honesty, yes, I think it might sometimes make things more complicated. Your concern about your friends' bias can be a real one. We purposely avoided moving out of the district and bought a place at the southern end of CCDC.  We recently had a friend who said he didn't have time to get "all the way up" to our place one evening from Woodley Park to come over. It is three miles, there was no traffic, and you don't even make any turns! And our Capitol Hill friends are exceptionally difficult about leaving their neighborhood.

And I confess that we have a strong bias against going to Virginia. It just seems so hard to get there from our neighborhood. We try to make it, it just seems like it requires so much advance planning.

All that being said, you're not going to lose your good friends. Maybe you'll just shift around when and how you hang out; a long get together on weekends, or quicker stop-ins after work in DC before you head back to your house. And over time, you'll both naturally meet new people in the burbs and your friends in the city will move out as well, or move somewhere else, or you'll just grow apart.

Not trying to minimize a real concern, I just think you can do a little TOO much planning around what your social network will look like 1, 5 or 10 years from now. Your peripheral friends will change no matter what, and your best friends will still be in your life even if you move to France.[/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