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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I fantasize about doing this too although I'm generally happy here.

[b]The thing that stops me is that my oldest is very quirky.  I guess I feel like people in suburbs value being "normal" or something, and people in small towns are less tolerant of differences.[/b]

I know I could be wrong, but I have this fear of dropping my quirky kid into a school with mini frat boys, and it not going well at all.[/quote]

This was my experience when my parents did something similar. We moved from Wake County, NC where I had a solid base of nerdy friends like me, to a small town in NC where it was much harder to find those people. Eventually, I found friends, but it was a challenge and I never found people like the ones I left. We moved after seventh grade which was probably an especially hard time to do it, and I didn't really have any friends for a couple years (I remember the first time after we moved that I spent time with another kid outside of school was May of my 9th grade year). Now I'm a weirdo and wasn't really even okay at making friends until adulthood, but the experience definitely stuck with me. I don't plan to move our kid if I can help it.[/quote]

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