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[quote=Anonymous]We moved back from where we (both DH and I) had been attending grad school. We are now closer to both of our families. It's about a 4 hour drive to most of them (5-6 for a couple), whereas before, it was about a 24 hour drive or a 4-5 hour flight (plus connections). We only saw our families maybe twice a year.

Then, my brother moved his family to GA. DH's brother moved his family to upstate OH (is that a place?), and my mom died shortly after we moved home. So we still aren't seeing a lot of our family more than once or twice a year. Add to that that DH's family almost NEVER comes to visit us.

It took me a while to find a job, around a year, although DH had one when we moved. He isn't as happy with his career as he would have been elsewhere, but we would have had to move from the city we LOVED for his job either way, most likely even further west. I like my job OK, and we are both in very stable if uninspiring career paths now. After 6 years, though, we haven't fallen in love with, or even in like with, the DC area. I still long for the city where we used to live, although I know it would be different if we lived there now with kids and not being in school anymore.

I guess the moral of my long story is that you never know how seemingly stable/permanent arrangements (i.e. where your family lives, who is still living even) may change over time, and you can't very well expect your family not to move because you "came back." I'm still mostly happy we moved back here, because we were closer when my mom got sick and will be closer as our other parents and grandparents age, but it hasn't been the panacea we probably thought it would be.[/quote]

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