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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people are really something else.

You move to the DC area because you have a single focus in your life – your high-powered career. You spend your entire life here focused on that, and when you do decide it’s time to fit some kids in you make damned sure they follow your single-minded footsteps and go off to the best bumper-sticker worthy college they can get into and off they go and never return.  Then, once your all consuming career is over and your high achieving kids are long gone, you look around and tell yourself there is no community here and that this area is too transient for you to stick around.

Some of us haven’t structured our lives the way you did.  So we do have a community here, and we have every reason to stick around.[/quote]

We have community here. But we can also find community somewhere more pleasant. If we don’t have to live in this sheethole then why would we stay? We will keep in touch with good friends. Just like we keep in touch with friends we met when we lived elsewhere. 
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If my life was merely one of “keeping in touch with friends”
who now live elsewhere I’d be pretty depressed.

We don’t “have” to live here either.  We choose to live here because our roots are now here and our entire family also lives here.  Apparently none of this is true in your case - presumably because you structured your life just as I have described.  [/quote]

I'd be pretty depressed if I had poor reading comprehension.

And I'd be pretty depressed to forever live in this sheethole.

YMMV. [/quote]

Maybe if you weren’t such [b]an angry and nasty twit[/b] you wouldn’t have to keep moving hoping you can “find community somewhere more pleasant.”  Clearly you haven’t found it yet.

How far away have your kids moved from you?  Probably not as far as they wished they could.  [/quote]

Clearly, you are projecting.  :lol:

My kids are still young, but I'm encouraging them to leave this area so they can discover the great big world out there. There are much better places to live and you can find good friends wherever you go. It'd be sad if this area was the only one they knew. 
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Again, what’s up with the either / or proposition?  Why the presumption that you can’t both explore the world and have your home base being where you grew up?   What’s noble about encouraging your children to grow up and move away?

You say your kids are still young.  Come back to me in 20 years when they live clear across the country and have nothing to do with you and tell me then how awesome it is.  [/quote]

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