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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gave up my most recent, and wonderful job, to move cross-country the existentially bleak Tysons Corner area. And abandoning (except for consultation) my twenty-year industry network in NorCal.

Everything here - landscape, outdoor activities, food, the street festivals and experimental music and art I used to love - are erased by this grim sea of concrete. Blowing snow. Meeting interesting people only to have them decamp to State postings in Dubai, S.Africa, Perth, Indonesia. My kid makes a friend...and six months later the kid disappears.

Once a decent financial cushion is established, I'll move my family back to the West Coast. I know it has its troubles. But the landscape and the intellectual curiosity amoung middle-age people - not just the young - of my former home are all wiped away here.

It's the worst decision of my life. I'm balancing my feelings for my husband, my own financial assets, and my desire not to disrupt our child too much with moves, to decide the next step.

I'm sure I'd been less dour re. Tysons Corner had I hadn't had the two decades of intellectually satisfying work in geographically rich NorCal. But right now a thick gray curtain is drawn over our lives here.

I pray we'll return some day.

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Maybe relocate to an area of DC that fits you better? Tysons IS bleak! You just have to find your niche. Moving is hard and takes a lot of time to settle in. I live in Calif but I'm from DC. Both are great places, just different. Lots of intellectual stimulation in DC...[/quote]

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