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[quote=Anonymous]I have found this to be true in general for hosted events in this area, which is so far outside my realm of experience that I didn't know how to deal with it at first.

We host constantly. Before any of our friends had kids and now after as well.  For every maybe 6 times we have someone over we get one invite back and often it is to go someplace else with the kids like a museum or the zoo. People always reach out to us to get together, but it nearly always ends up being at our house, which means all the work and most of the expense is on us. In our particular situation with the friends we see the most, I think it's generally a matter of living space. One family lives in an apartment which isn't fabulous space wise when you add our kid into the mix with their 2. Another family has a dog that doesn't seem to like people much. The 3rd doesn't have kids so their house isn't really set up to accommodate our 2 year old.

I keep hosting because I like to have people over, always have. I never had any qualms about hosting even when we lived in a 1 bedroom apartment and didn't have much spare space. But I get that others don't like to host or don't feel their space is appropriate or whatever. So now I just take people up on offers to bring things to ease up on the work/expense for us. [/quote]

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