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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had one little baby at the start of the pandemic, who is now school age, and who now has a baby brother. When it all started and was going to be temporary, I did not mind. But staring down the barrel of what lies ahead for their childhoods is bleak.

[b]Two years in, with the harshest restrictions put on our children with no end in sight, I really want to move. DC has changed, in my mind. The economy is dead. The energy of the city is dead. The kids are zombie sheep with no resilience or social skills because of the mandates imposed on them, if they're not also struggling academically and emotionally. [/b]

I'm just scared it will never change or turn around, and more open, less politically charged areas are calling to me.

I'm just wondering if others feel the same?[/quote]

Are you sure you don't have PPD?  I mean, this is a bit much. "The kids are zombie sheep..."??  Like, what?  Whose kids?  My kids and my friends' kids are doing just fine.  They are not suffering.  Maybe the children who are less fortunate and born into poverty, yes, they are struggling and we should help them.  But generally people who post on DCUM aren't in this boat.

The city is dead to you because you have 2 small children and are probably drowning in the day-in/day-out childcare routine.  This isn't going to change if you move somewhere else; when your kids are older, life will be easier.  The pandemic will also ease in a year or two.  DC has a lot to offer, but you sound like your judgment is clouded right now and/or you are depressed.

I'd wait a bit to make any major life decisions.[/quote]

I agree with this.  You've just been through a lot.  So has the whole country and all other parents of two small children.  Moving won't change that.

I have two kids in school, and the transition back to normal life has had its challenges, but it's underway.  And my kids are certainly not zombie sheep.  Sometimes I wish they were a little more compliant.

Give it a month or so and maybe look into anti-depressants.  And pay a little less attention to local politics.  Your obsession doesn't seem healthy.  And I guarantee you that eccentrics you disagree with are involved in local politics nationwide.  Leaving DC won't get you out of that reality.[/quote]

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