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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure moving is the fix you expect it to be.

You can walk now.  Really. Put on shoes and go on a walk. Start hiking for errands.

People are busy everywhere and it’s difficult to make friends. No guarantee you’ll make any in your new location. My husband struggled to make friends and it’s been that way everywhere we have lived. [/quote]

Hiking?   It’s a different energy walking in a city vs an empty neighborhood.   I can walk city streets for miles.  I feel like my feet are dragging in a quiet area without anything going on.  [/quote]

Walkability (and museums and great restaurants) are lovely (although the first sometimes not so much during Chicago winters) but that's not really what is going to make OP, or her kids, truly happy.  She (and all of us) [b]need to be somewhere where we jibe with the people and have friends.  That's really your problem here, OP.  Will this move solve that?  I personally found it harder to make friends in my northside Chicago neighborhood[/b] than my current north shore suburb.  Everyone felt busier in the city...

Also, are you trying just beyond your neighbors to make friends?  is your youngest in preschool?  What about through that community?  Your older child's ES?  Are you joining things?  Doing inviting?  Initiating?  [/quote]

The average dual income family with 2+ kids is very busy and there’s not a lot of room for making new friends. Modern parenting seems to involve making friends through kids, and those friendships don’t last. OP might make a few new friends but I’d be shocked if she relocated to an urban area and somehow managed to create a busy social life.  [/quote]

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