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[quote=Anonymous]Waving at you from the sunshine state! Couldn't be happier in our N Florida beach town. I knocked it too, until I tried it! Miss my friends and nothing else.

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[quote=Anonymous]I fantasize about a move to Florida - I love warm weather and we have family in the Tampa area.  However, we have a lot of friends in DC and good jobs here that I doubt we could replicate anywhere else.  I also think I would probably miss the energy in DC and the sense of opportunity and being where the action is.[/quote]

Yes to both of these.  We were in Florida for several years on a job transfer lark. Figured worst case we'd hate it and move back in a couple years, best case we'd love it and stay for a few years until the next fun job transfer. Anything to get out of DC.  We were there for 2 weeks and were like "we're never leaving".  I am a big city, socialist, 50% of a "dynamic DC power couple", and despite all that, we freaking loved it.  All of that ethereal crap doesn't matter when you actually love your day to day living - from getting up in the sunshine morning to walking in the sand on a daily basis. We had fantastic jobs in DC, but there are some good jobs in Florida (especially in tampa - lots of corporate headquarters down there; policy jobs in Tallahassee, and lawyer jobs all over the state).  But the reality is that, to the extent you're someone who would love to leave DC, you just don't miss having a great DC job when you end up somewhere you love.  We made friends with a ton of people in Florida, lots of lawyers (like me!) and frankly they were in jobs that were all C-list DC lawyer jobs (regional firms, local government, etc). They all knew it, we knew it - and we all laughed about it, because who cares when we were all having such a wonderful life with oceanfront cocktails on Friday night after we left work at 5pm?  We also made much better and more meaningful friends in Florida than we ever did here.  So when you talk about "DC jobs, energy, where the action is", all of this is just the bullshit we tell ourselves when we live in DC to justify how humdrum this lifestyle is.  Those are the "big picture" things that get you through a year. But they don't make your long workday, your shitty commute, or your crappy small house in a mediocre school district any better.  Live for the day![/quote]

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