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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm planning on it. 33yo and feel like I can't breathe raising 2 little kids in this area.[/quote]

This. I lived in the DMV for a long time before having kids and was content. It wasn't perfect but I had a good life and made the most of the opportunities here.

Something about raising kids here feels wrong. I still make the best of it but there is this feeling in my heart like I have to get us out of here. I need to move before it's too late and my kids roots are here. I will not stay once they are grown so I don't want it to be "home" to them. I'm fine coming back to visit but I want our family home to be somewhere else.[/quote]

100%. I am so happy we raised kids in a nicer part of the world, with slow life and a lot of nature.[b] I am pretty sure my kids would be in therapy if they grew up in NOVA[/b]. However, we all live happily in DC metro area now with adult kids nearby and enjoy this area very much.[/quote]

I don't want to hijack OPs (great!) thread, but can you share more about why you think NOVA or the DC area is hard for kids?  My kids are still young, but I have been having this feeling lately but am so scared to move anywhere else (mainly job related). And I am also scared I will decide too late that this area is not for us and have to pull them from their schools and community in the late elementary years.

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