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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a small community.  My parents grew up there, my grandparents all grew up there, the kids I went to school with in kindergarten were, for the most part, the same kids with whom I graduated high school.  I know exactly what you mean re growing up in a small, stable community.

But!  My husband grew up in the DC area, a nice suburb, but it was always about as transient as it is here now.  He LOVES it here.  He absolutely wanted to move back here to raise kids because he had such fond childhood memories of doing DC things.  Honestly, he was a kid who in high school didn't really fit in with sporty popular types and he spent a lot of his time going downtown to clubs and doing whatever.  He would have been so miserable in my small town.

So, my point is, there are things that are great about both ways of growing up and maybe some of it is the way you frame it.  Also, we live in Arlington and our neighborhood has been really stable- a lot of families who moved in when their kids were really little and have stayed through middle school.  So there's that.[/quote]

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