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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would have started this thread. I never would have considered moving back home, but this pandemic has made me realize that our life with three kids and two stressful jobs is really hard here without any support.  We have friends, but they all have their own stuff going on.  My parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and 2 of my 3 siblings are all in one place.  Its not a very posh place to live, but low cost of living.  My husband has always worked from home, so he can move his career pretty easily.  I would take a real career hit (I am in biglaw here and always assumed I would work in house and probably go back to biglaw at some point), but I can't seem to decide whether I would miss this.  It is such a huge decision![/quote]

For what it's worth, I was in biglaw in DC and we moved away from there to a lower cost of living area on the water to improve our quality of life. (My husband can work from anywhere and has to travel some regardless of where we are). We actually moved farther away from family in doing so, so I can't speak to that part of it, but in terms of a less stressful lifestyle, it has been worth the pay cut and also the downgrade from the incredibly intellectually demanding career I had before to the more relaxed but still fulfilling career I have now. We are so glad we moved before all this happened. Being out of the city in a much bigger house with a body of water as our yard has made staying at home infinitely easier. We keep saying we are so glad we're not still in DC living our old lives right now.[/quote]

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