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[quote=Anonymous]OP,

It's going to be way cheaper, and way less stressful to find a way to improve the social connections in your current neighborhood.  Use some of the money you would have spent on moving to host some parties (be it adult parties, kid parties, block parties, or a mixture).  Set up fun-kid-stuff (like an outdoor tv/movie screen or a pool or even a pingpong table or badminton net and cater some good food.  Have people bring something small to add to it....   Then hang out at the totlots, put your kids in swim lessons or swim team, take a leadership role in the scout groups, get involved in your HOA.... these are the ways you build connections.  There is NO community that you can simply buy a house in and --- presto -- you have instant friends.

You will spend so much time trying to find a home, selling your home (which is no small feat with four kids), setting up a move, then setting up your new house, getting kids in new schools, and being the new person who knows no one... that is what the next 12-24 months will look like.  None of that is going to bring you the "community" connections you want for the next 2+ years.

It literally takes YEARS to establish roots and connections.  [/quote]

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