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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, why don't you two have close family.  Are your parents alive?[/quote]

Because they both abandoned them and moved across the country for soulless careers. Getting college grads to abandon their families to seek jobs in 10 largest major metros has to have been the biggest scam ever pulled. Gutted families, hollowed out entire swaths of the nation, low birth rates because nobody has nearby family to help raise kids, and has led to a loneliness and depression epidemic we will never solve.[/quote]

Better to stay in their hometowns with dying economies and no prospects of economic stability. [/quote]

I'd certainly rather make a little less coin and live 30 to 120 minutes from most family than be friendless loners estranged from all family like OP. And I didn't see OP claim she and her husband are even wealthy. They are probably just DC middle class. What is the point of living in a place you're miserable in and don't even make much money in? Depression and isolation literally kills you early.[/quote]
 
You have no evidence that OP was happy in her hometown. I’d say she wasn’t happy which is at least part of why she left.[/quote]

Living within comfortable driving distance from your hometown and family is not "in your hometown". If for example, you're from rather dreary Akron, Ohio, that would mean living in Columbus, Cleveland, or Pittsburgh. Abandoning your roots and family works out fine for many people, but often, it has depressing consequences -- not just for you, but your entire broader family. Grandparents die earlier when they don't get the joy of nearby grandkids.[/quote]

My parents and my ln laws lived into their 90s with no kids or grandkids around in their economically depressed area.

Not everyone who had kids back in the day *wanted* to have kids, please remember that.

Some of us also end up moving to places like the DC metro because this is where the jobs are. For one brief moment during the pandemic it looked like a lot of us could work remotely, and then it was over. [/quote]

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