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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cruel? np here. I disagree. My parents sold our family home right after my HS graduation. When I came home for visits during college, I was visiting a location where I had no roots. I did that some but I also saw my old childhood life was over. That's ok. It kick-started my adult life. I was thinking early in college where likely would I want to live? What was the cost of living like? Could I rent an apartment and how much would it cost? I'd like to try-it-out for a summer. What skills would I need to get a good job. Supporting myself, of course. What classes would help with this? I was way-ahead of my peers, being an adult, imo, when I graduated from college.[/quote]

We are 15 miles from "the family home kids grew up in for MS/HS".  Our kid's friends still all live there, the families haven't moved.  When my kid is home, they spend part of their time out there at their 2 besties places (they live next door to each other).  So they have our home and those homes to be at anytime they want (seriously, we are all like one big family, the kids are welcomed to be at any of our places anytime).   So my kid still has their roots, just not in our specific house, but everything else is accessible easily.  And as a bonus they get our new apartment/condo in an amazing city.  It does help a kid realize it's time to adult, as well as it is healthy to realize Mom & Dad are people too, who have a life and interests that revolve around more than just the daily wants of their offspring.  
Fact is my kid comes home for 4 day fall break, 4 days at thanksgiving, 2-3 week xmas break and 1 week spring break and summer.  Now they are a junior, they didn't come home for fall break (went to Europe to visit friends studying abroad), and will be going with friends for spring break to Caribbean.  So only home for xmas this year, as we went closer to them for the 4 days at thanksgiving.  And most likely their summer internship will be not "at home", so it was 2 years of them home, and now they are moving on to not coming home for half the breaks, as that is what college kids spreading their wings do.

So nope, I don't regret moving on to have the life we want as "empty nesters"---I expect my kids to fly as well.  If it's near us, we will help with rent since we are the ones who "downsized".  But I dont' regret moving out of the massive house, just because the "kids might come back home".  There are other ways to solve that issue, that still allow us the life we envision

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