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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have any advice, but why are so many military families choosing not to live in Belvoir housing? It looks pretty nice in the pics I saw on the Lincoln Housing site. [/quote]

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My husband recently retired after a 25 year military career (we were married 15 of those years).   We never once lived on base.   My husband really didn't not want to come home and still have to deal with the politics of work.   In general, base housing is segregated by rank, but if you at the lower end of your rank category (for example, if you are a major--and the other field officers are LT. Colonels and Colonels) you will still have senior people living in your housing area.  He really didn't want to have to deal with calling a next door neighbor "sir" or having to salute if he happened to still be in uniform, etc.   If our kid gets in a fight with the kid next door, its' a lot harder to deal with if the neighbor is a higher (or lower) rank, etc.   Much easier to have (mostly) civilian neighbors who don't care what rank you are.[/quote]

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