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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont get people who want to move away from friends and community they spent 18+ years building unless its totally unaffordable. When my kids are grown ill get to garden more, spend more time with the friends i made and enjoy my neighborhood more.  [/quote]

+1 million. [/quote]

Many of my friends have plans to move, so the community is going to be broken up anyway.  They are moving for various reasons:  lifestyle, to be closer to family (either for eldercare or to be around grandkids), finances.[/quote]

+1 It really is different for people who aren't DC area natives. For the rest of us, the transient nature of the area means that the people in the community that you  built keep leaving. Almost all of my good friends from my 30 years living in DC have left. We finally left DC for a different part of the country and wish we did it sooner.[/quote]

Some of us can not imagine living in one place our entire lives, it is 2023, not 1952! [/quote]

Sad isn't? Roaming the world looking for something that they should be seeking inside themselves.[/quote]

Wow that's quite a leap there. Most people aren't wistfully roaming the world and never finding a community. They leave DC and find what they're looking for.[/quote]

I'm a bit curious about this. Because I left the US for 14 years of expatdom, roaming the world. I had a great time, but you definitely don't put down roots. One of the reasons for moving back to was to build a community and put down roots so that when I was older I'd have good networks of family and friends. And it's a lot harder to do this when middle aged or older than to start out in your 20s like most of my friends did back in the day, settling down, buying a house, starting a family. They now all have established networks. I still don't. So when I hear people talk about leaving a place to move somewhere new, I'm not quite sure they really understand what they're getting into. Except, of course, if you move somewhere when you already have good friends. Or don't care about having friends. The latter is quite real for many, I've noticed. [/quote]

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