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[quote=Anonymous]I don't hate it in DC like many of the posters here.  I've been here for 20 years.  I do live in the city and I do send my one school age kid to public school, the other one is too young still but in a not outrageously expensive daycare near my office.  So my commute is no problem and we have a house that is small but big enough and has a small yard.  I like hot summers and short winters so the weather is fine with me.  Endless mid-western winters are much harder then hot summers to me.  Work is stressful, money is often tight but I honestly don't think those things would go away for us if we moved.

Something I think about when I consider moving is what it would be like to be a mom at my age in other areas.  DH and I both have mid-western families and its true that the cost of living is very low where we are from and that the style of living seems to be lower stress.  But we've lived in DC for 20 years and didn't have our kids until we were almost 40.  All the moms in the towns we grew up in in with pre-school and elementary kids are 10-20 years younger then me.  Here I am not an old mom and everyone else in my DC NW neighborhood is just like me.  When we visit family I feel like an odd-ball older mom.  I'd rather have a little extra stress then be an odd ball.  There are probably other areas of the country with a high percentage of older moms like we have here in DC, but I'm guessing that those areas also have all the same stress factors we have here too.[/quote]

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