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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand this village concept.  What is it you want from others?  You want them to help you out with childcare and chores?  Or do you want to make friends?  [/quote]

NP.  I can only speak for myself, but boy do I miss having family nearby.  Those that think this is just because we must want "free childcare", etc. must be so jaded.  I grew up going to dinner at my grandparents a couple times per month, going on movie/ice cream dates with my single aunt, having raucous sleepovers with my cousins.  I still text with a couple of my aunts all the time.  My kids will have a much more limited version of all of that, everyone lives too far away to see more than a couple times per year.  You don't know what you have until you don't.

And while we have some friends we can call on in case of emergencies, it's just different.  Or at least it was with my family- everyone helped eachother out so there's less feeling like you're imposing when asking for a favor.[/quote]

So you want to live closer to family so you can spend more time together.  Got it.  That’s not what I gathered from OP’s post [/quote]

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