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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are most of these posts from a "White people, free to roam the land" POV? I have a gut feeling that the experiences my family will face in a lot of these places greatly differs from most of these posters.  I honestly feel that outside of major cities, a vast portion of this country is still homogenous and insufferable. [/quote]

I am white, so I will acknowledge that I may see the world only from a white privilege point of view.  But I'd be careful about generalizing about everywhere outside of major cities.  I have lived all over the east coast, including DC.  I now live in a midwesternish city where I grew up.  My experience is that there is great variety away from the coasts.  For example, in my midwesternish city, I live in a city neighborhood that is incredibly diverse, international and educated, while also diverse in that it is not too expensive so there is a huge variety of socioeconomics.  I live near several universities and hospitals, and that contbributes to the diversity of the community.  However, drive to one of my cities' suburbs and I agree, it is white-white-white middle america.  I love my city, but would not love living in one of its suburbs.  So please don't generalize about the entire US apart from the coasts..that ignores the variety within even individual cities.

More generally, I made the DC to midwest home city move about 2 years ago.  There have certainly been challenges mostly related to finding the right job opportunities and meeting new people, but my life quality of life overal is so many times better (again except for the job opportunities which are fabulous IMO in DC).  We got to pick our neighborhood of choice (whereas I hated where we could afford to live in DC), my commute is easy, we have tons of family help with babysitting, everything is much cheaper, our city has a real homegrown culture, which I always found DC to lack, and trips out of town are easy.  I have several museums in walking distance from my house, whereas in DC, we were living so far from the national mall, going to museums was a huge pain the butt.   Things are much less crowded et cetera, et cetera...[/quote]

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