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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I moved from DC to a small little town. There are of course benefits to all places. I miss the museums and never ending supply of activities and opportunities and events and diversity of thought.

I love that my kids can bike around town with their friends and that they know everyone and that they feel a great sense of place in their childhood.

But a childhood with all the opportunities they would have had in DC would also have been great. There is no reason to denigrate one place to decide you would prefer another. [/quote]

What do you think that they're not getting where you live vs DC? Honestly, your kids childhood sounds great![/quote]

Any exposure to diversity of thought and culture. Access to all the incredible enrichment opportunities. I think they are having a great childhood! But I can also see the benefits of the childhood they would have had. I am not saying where I live now is awful, just that there is always trade offs when making these kind of decisions and there is a good childhood to be had anywhere if you know how to look at it.[/quote]

+1 We lived in several major cities until settling outside a small city. We're fortunate that our income  is actually very high for the COL (company pays more to attract people away from NYC, etc). But it's a tight knit community with few transplants and families have known each other for generations making it hard to break in. It can also feel a bit homogeneous where everyone vacations in the same places and eats in the same restaurants. That being said we have a large home and a nice lifestyle and my kids love their private school (which would be $15-20k more expensive in other places like DC). [/quote]

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