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Originally Posted by hipster duck
I also have kids. When you have kids, not only do they grow up here and make friends and connections,
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this is one consideration that i'm acutely aware of because my wife and I had pretty different childhoods.
from the moment i was born until i left home for college, i lived in the same house the entire time, so my social world was
extremely stable growing up. one time when i was about 6, my dad was offered a big opportunity to move up in his company, but it would've required a move out of state. he ended up finding a new job with a different firm locally instead.
my wife's dad, on the other hand, was a hardcore corporate ladder climber. her earliest years were spent in a house in milwaukee, then they moved to south korea for several years because of her dad's job, then they moved back to suburban milwaukee for several years, then off again to colorado for another job transfer during her junior high years, and finally back again to suburban milwaukee for her high school years.
my wife
HATED being uprooted so frequently during her childhood and still resents it to a degree as a 43 year old. she found it exceedingly challenging to reconstruct her entire social life every 3 to 4 years while growing up.
it's a big reason why i don't think we'd even buy a different house if we hit the jackpot. we love our home, our block, our neighbors, our kids' school, our neighborhood, etc.
there are some really wonderful intangibles about where we live that you can't even necessarily buy, you kinda just have to luck your way into them sometimes. and we did.