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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids are now in their late teens and after a long overdue trip to visit relatives in a city in the center of the country, it was interesting to hear their perspectives. They spent time socializing with cousins and their freinds living there. The main thing they commented on was the complete lack of diversity and the complete buy in for Trump and Fox News everywhere they went in this city and its suburbs. The fear of darker skin and/or immigrants was palpable and of course ridiculous in their minds. They also noticed many churches that had sprouted up in strip malls which was new to me as well.

DD, who had also spent 2 summers there in her early/mid teens actually thanked us for not moving back and having them grow up there! She saw the teen boredom, the sameness and lack of things or many fewer things to do that interest her. The first question those summers that kids asked her was "what church youth group do you go to?"  This in particular is SO different than when I was growing up there.

DS could see that there were outdoor things like hunting, camping and boating that seemed in some ways more accessible to teens out there, but he too prefers it here.

I'm really hoping that they both do not come back to DC after college but live elsewhere.  I'm guessing both will want to live closer to the coasts if possible.  FWIW, we live in an UMC neighborhood surrounded and mixed in with lower income housing with many recent immigrants so they grew up with a lot of racial and income diversity.[/quote]

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