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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Counterpoint: I grew up in a small town and was (and still am) weird.  I liked it — it was easy to find your people because there were so few people overall that you quickly learned who all the other nerds were and got along with them.  My middle school experience sucked in some ways but I made lifelong friends there.[/quote]

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