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[quote=Anonymous]After you had kids. I guess this is only for those who actually are considering this or have done it.

I've been in the DC area since I was 23. Moved after undergrad, have an awesome group of friends who all get along, husbands all get along. Had an absolute blast with these people all through 20s and then getting married and starting families (most have been within the same 5 or so years to do this). A few of my friends have at least one side of their family in the area (grandparents, etc) but more of us are transplants and kind of have each other as family.

Its been great but its also getting so, so much harder to be away from my blood family because we are close and have good relationships. My only sibling lives in another NE big city. Our parents live in a post-cold war, dying industry city in the NE that neither of us will probably ever go back to. So now I keep thinking about relocating to where my sibling is (and is bound to stay because of being married to a local, etc).

But its hard to walk away from what we built here too. And I don't love the cold at ALL! And I do actually like it here. But now I wonder if its enough.

After some time on a family vacation its so sad to me that my kids could end up just with their nuclear family around. Its how much DH was raised but I was the opposite so its hard to wrap my mind around.

We only have 1 child now. I would imagine having 2 would get us even more entrenched.[/quote]

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