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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,  you still won't say where it is you would like to move back to.  You don't have to give away the exact town but come ON.  How is anyone supposed to objectively evaluate whether your desire to move "back home" makes sense if you refuse to say where "home" is?  That doesn't make sense.  With the way you claim to love it, you should be bragging about it, right?

"I'm from the Florida panhandle.". "I'm from upstate NY ". "I'm from southern Cal." "I'm from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.". "I'm from Philly". And so forth.

Also, of course D.C. and places with a similar SES profile are filled with careerists.  And you knew that when you moved here and benefited from it.  You can't just ignore all the benefits of where you have been living.

You don't like the traffic, fine.  Can't YOU look for another job that is remote or WFH or a bit more flexible to help address the commute?

You don't like the weather.  You miss the snow (I guess that's a hint but not a really specific one.). You can't take a week of PTO and visit the slopes or something?  Although you don't say you miss skiing.  Yes it can get humid, that's what air conditioners are for.

Your "reasons" are so vague and generic that it trivializes what is going to be a huge traumatic life change for your family.  No wonder you're not getting any buy in from your spouse.  You sound childish.[/quote]

I’m pretty familiar with everything north of DC in PA, NY, MD, DE, NJ, and New England:  I doubt OP could name a place in that arc where DCUMers would not instantly man/woman-splain to her how craptastic it is or how it’s afflicted at least as badly by DMV-like problems, albeit with less summer heat/humidity.

The only places in that arc where I would rather raise a family than in the DMV are a few well-located college towns like Princeton, NJ.  Huge swaths of the northeast away from the eastern seaboard are straight-up Appalachia, and don’t get me started on how many cloudy days Pittsburgh has, how screwed up is Hartford, the special concentrated insanity of the Boston area, etc.

So I’m guessing OP has no interest in reading those kinds of responses, but for the rest of us it might be fun.

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OP here. The Princeton area is actually where home is. [/quote]

Holy smokes!  PP here.  I feel like I got Wordle right on zero tries!  And I’m totally team OP now!  Also, DCUM detectives, please show me some love about guessing right with zero clues.  Although do I even believe OP — what’s better about Princeton winters?[/quote]

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