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[quote=Anonymous]People move around all over the place to pursue professional opportunities after college.

I was born in California, moved at a really young age to DC, and moved again around middle school to the Chicago area.  I went to college in the Pacific Northwest, grad school in Texas, and now live in California again because DH and I both had a chance to pursue good career opportunities here. I have plenty of friends from high school, college, and grad school who ended up all over the place.  Several of my college friends now live in New York, Boston, or DC because there were good professional opportunities for them in those cities, despite the fact that my college was located on the west coast.

There is no guarantee that if your daughter went to college on the east coast that she wouldn't relocate for grad school or to pursue a great opportunity after college.  After all, many cities are dominant in certain industries.  Regardless of where she goes to college, if your daughter goes into journalism, finance, etc. there is a good chance she would end up in New York.  If your daughter goes into biotech, she'll probably end up in the SF bay area or Boston.  If she becomes a high level software engineer, she'll probably end up in the bay area.  If she wants to go into entertainment, she'll probably end up in LA.  If she ends up having a career that is related to politics or policy, DC.  And so on.

I think it's way to early to think about whether or not you are going to be a long distance grandmother.  Who knows where her life will take her in the next decade or so before she will have kids.  If it's really so important to you, you can consider moving where she is after you retire.[/quote]

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