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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to do this, but take my DH and kid with me. I just want to start over somewhere new. I hate where I live and the people I live around, and I think the stress of being here is literally making me sick.[/quote]
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Me too! Except I don't hate the people, just hate the familiarity and I want a little anonymity. I know being here is bad for me but I have to stick it out for a while. I also am not sure where a good place to go would be.[/quote]

PP here. I wish we could hang out and commiserate. I actually think a lot of the people around me are miserable but if you express any negativity about this place, people freak out and get very defensive, so I've learned to pretend I like it. But that defensiveness indicates to me that a lot of people are secretly quite unhappy and just don't want to admit it out loud.

I have a place picked out though. I've come up with a few ideas, but recently settled on one that feels really right. I've started looking at real estate there and recently my DH and I set a savings target so that when we are finally free to move, we should have enough between savings and proceeds from sale of our home here to buy in cash or with a very small mortgage. That will give us a lot of freedom in terms of how we set up our life.

Now I'm trying to figure out a way for us to do a couple trips there in the next year, then hopefully increase frequency of visits until we finally move. Hoping to acclimate DC to it there as much as we can, maybe even get some friendships going, so it's not an abrupt move.

Also just hoping that working toward this goal will help the time stuck here go faster. It won't be a sudden move with a brand new life, but it will hopefully get the momentum moving in that direction.[/quote]

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