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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We must be outliers because we have realized we love our suburban life and quiet neighborhood. We aren’t out and about like we were before kids so we really enjoy our home, our yard, the trails and general peace and quiet of our neighborhood. If we want to go into DC for dinner or to see a show we go. But have no interest in living near bars and coffee shops filled with younger people or the density that city life brings.

So for us the answer is no. But from the responses it seems like we are in the minority. [/quote]

The youth keep you young.

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NP-I feel the opposite, like I am over a lot of the "young" scene, what's trendy, what's in, packed restaurants. I find that it highlights my mindset shift to what's quiet, enduring.[/quote]

This is because you don't live in the city.  If you live in the city you don't have to go to a "packed" restaurant on a Friday or Saturday night, for example.  You can go anytime.

The idea that the city is overrun with young people going crazy and elbowing you out of the way is ridiculous.[/quote]

The idea that everyone wants to live in the city is also ridiculous. [/quote]

Well, the idea that people would prefer to hole up and rattle around in a big empty house and live off of fading memories in a boring suburb while they wait to shrivel up and die and hope that their kids and hypothetical grandkids visit once or twice a year doesn't sound real appealing to many of us either. [/quote]

That's a pretty sad view and not really reality for anyone who actually enjoys their house and town regardless of kids. [/quote]

They "enjoy" their house and suburban "town" because they're stuck in their ways and afraid to try something new.[/quote]

There's nothing groundbreaking and brave about city living v. burb or country living. And it's not exactly new if you lived there before anyway. Many people move to all sorts of new places in older age for a change, not necessarily cities.[/quote]

And some don't budge from their boring suburbs.  [/quote]

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