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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you be a bit more specific about what opinions you would like regarding the midwest?  Cost of living will be lower.  Living in most urban areas you will be able to get more of a house for the same if not less.  What is important to you and your family?[/quote]

We live in Georgetown right now, for contrast.

I'd like some opinions on culture shock, access to live events, is the pace really slower, will are children have a vastly different experience?

Important to us would be, family time - we like going to live events, sports, music, plays. An active community is a plus, a catholic church with a parochial school would be perfect for us. Less keeping up with the Joneses (We are guilty of being the Joneses and trying to keep up so no judgement here), less pressure on academics (don't take that as we don't care, but our oldest two who are school age are enrolled in one of the "big three" - and parents already discuss ivies). I think my husband feels he is missing out on his childrens lives and wants more free time. I'd love a bigger yard, for a garden in the summer, maybe some backyard chickens! (like I said, we are in the fantasy stage - so thats why I asked for some grounding)[/quote]

St. Louis.

LOTS of Catholics and tons of parish schools and Catholic High Schools.

Webster Groves, Kirkwood, anything in the Lindbergh or Rockwood school districts.

Clayton is nice too.

Stay away from anything north (daily shootings, sometimes multiple and often involving children)

Some really nice areas like Shaw or Lafayette Square would be desireable except that the north county and north city violence has a bit of creep.

Climate is like NOVA with humidity, plus a minimum of two ice storms per winter.

Very nice people. Not terribly diverse as whites/small numbers of asians/"the Bosnians" tend to live south and west and most blacks tend to live north for lower and working class and north of forty for working/middle class. That will likely be a big change from here. Rockwood will likely have the most diversity with middle/upper middle class families if I were to guess (of course things might have changed)

Drivers are soooo polite compared to here.[/quote]

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