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One other warning: if you go someone lower key, you have to just accept a professional step down. either because your job is less good or pays less well, or simply because you'll be surrounded by a bunch of other people who don't give a crap what you do because they are teachers, or zumba instructors, or a/c repair guys, or stay at home moms.  We define much of our happiness in DC by our jobs and our degrees. By necessity, a low COL community is going to have less people with good jobs, is going to have less good jobs, is going to have lower quality colleagues in your somewhat good job, is going to have less good clients.  [b]No matter how good your job is in the new place, it will never be a "DC job". [/b] We are sooooo okay with that. We are a power couple and have it all (reputation, success, $$), but we're like "who cares?" and happy to walk away.  Just a warning.  [/quote]

Yes, this.  I used to think about my home town in flyover country -- nice, relaxing, midwestern college town.  Recently I've had to do business there to settle some affairs.  First it's quite different than here.  There's so much less national news, access to information.  Also my job here in DC allows me to make policy that affects the entire US-- it's really important to the future of the planet.  I feel compelled by it, interested in doing the very best that I can and like I am making a difference.  This is a DC job-- nothing comparable is available in my hometown.  I would really miss this-- the responsibility, the complexity, and the incredibly high level of people I work with-- they are quite simply amazing people.

Ultimately I have decided to stay out here and keep my DC job.  We've found a slower pace of life through our communities here (religious, school, neighborhood).  Our house is close in and affordable, albeit smallish.  [/quote]

I posted earlier about being ready to make an escape but this is something I struggle with. It's not just the stability and good pay, it's all that with a job I love in public service, which is important to me. But spending time with my kids also is important to me, and I hate living in unwalkable neighborhoods with a long commute. Sometimes I think I could be perfectly happy being a secretary for the local dentist in some small New England town. [/quote]

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