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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is sort of the lot in life for people who choose to live so far from family. Either you sacrifice vacation time for family time or vice versa. It’s zero sum.[/quote]

Op here. I had a very very hard time when my husband accepted a job in California a decade ago. We lived in DC for over a decade and we were students for a lot of that time. I was really looking forward to enjoying the city and life there when we both had professional jobs. I’d told him I’d move for a better cost of living or to be closer to our families. Granted an amazing opportunity kind of fell in his lap (though he’s not doing it anymore) but California / peninsula outside San Francisco felt like one of the few places in the country that didn’t meet either of the criteria. I like to travel and explore and he does not. He’s complained a lot this year about our budget for flying East and that we’re overdoing it and that we can’t spend money on other travel. We can afford it if we chose to - it’s just not his priority. I told him (as I have before) that we can accept this is a consequence of his choice to take the CA job or we can move back East because I’m not going to not see my family. Our 13 year old is happy and very into her friend group and her soccer team and other activities. If it weren’t for that I’d push to go back East (his family is in upstate NY). Though honestly at this point it would have a lot of work and few of the perks of family near by. My dad is really excited and I’m glad to be giving him the break. [/quote]

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