https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:14:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-9171 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:12:09 +0000 HLK208 9171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was the youngest of 4 girls so by the time my parents had me they settled into a nice "forever" home. But before me, they moved around quite a bit with my sisters.</p> <p>As for dh and I, we want to buy our second house in 5-10 years since the location of our first house is prime and with some major events coming to the town we're in, the value of our house will improve. But I would really love to raise our children in a forever home, not our first house. I want a new construction home in the suburbs like I had as a kid. It just seems easier to make a home your own when it's new and no one else has lived in it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-9134 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:13:39 +0000 PBandBaseball 9134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We bought our house with the intention of staying there for a long time but I'm starting to question how long I'm going to want to live in Atlanta. I think we'll probably end up moving to a smaller city eventually for better schools and a safer environment. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-9132 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:02:41 +0000 Colekbl 9132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in our hometown and love being close to our families. 20 days before our wedding we bought a behemoth of a house that needed total restoration &amp; we're in the process of turning it into our forever home.<br /> I can't imagine moving (unless it were to an island in the caribbean). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-8932 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:47:47 +0000 MH.Abroad 8932@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've moved 22 times. First I was a military brat, then an MK (missionary kid). Then I grew up and worked for non-profits. Our kids will have a similar experience. It has it's challenges, but it rounds out a person. I'll never regret all the life experiences I've gleaned through my moves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-3971 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:11 +0000 PitBulLover 3971@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in several different places/homes as my dad's job moved from one state to another. We first moved from MD to CA when I was 6 and then back to MD when I was 11. I lived in 7 different homes by the time I left for college. </p> <p>I have no idea what it will be like for our kids! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-3879 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:47:22 +0000 mrsjyw 3879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hubby and I bought our home that is about 20 minutes away from both of our hometowns. (We grew up in the same town, didn't meet until later in life). When we bought back in 2009, we said that it was our "starter home" because the market was so great for buyers in MI (still is!). Now that we've put work into it, we're reconsidering it as our "forever home." </p> <p>However, we would ideally like to be in a better school district, have a bigger back yard, and an extra bedroom (our 4th bedroom now is a converted dressing room) and we'd like to have 3 kids. So hubbs and I decided we will be house hunting between Kid #2 and #3.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-2967 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:15:52 +0000 Iiamsn01 2967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in one place until about 1.5 years ago. Right n ow we are in our "temporary" station and know that in another year or so we are going to move. I don't know if our next location will be our "forever" home but we plan to live there for quite some time. Ideally I would like to settle in one place while the kids go to school/can grow up in for stability. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-2806 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:01:28 +0000 mamabolt 2806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in one place from my eighth birthday on (but moved three times before that). I adore my hometown and wish I still lived there, but I met DH while I was attending grad school 2.5 hours away, and he has a great job in this area so we have settled in here for the long haul. We bought a great house that we anticipate staying in through raising our kids about a year ago - luckily the weak market let us stretch our budget and get a forever home instead of a starter home. Sometimes I wish we hadn't done it this way - we are paying for a school district we won't use for 6+ years, but we love our house and I love the idea of not moving for 20-30 years! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-2802 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:01:04 +0000 eml 2802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i moved a lot as a child too- had lived in 5 states by the time i was 10. that being said, i don't think i could make a "forever" home in the place i lived from ages 10-18. it's a great area, but my childhood makes me equate moving with moving *forward*- like staying there would feel stalled out or something. i love where we are now, but i'm sure we'll move again...because of the phd, haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-2791 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:45:12 +0000 bykes187 2791@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We still don't know where our forever home is. My parents are both from central Iowa but moved to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area shortly before I was born, and have lived there ever since. I loooooove MSP but I don't know if we'll ever go back to stay. :( My in-laws were military, then my FIL was finishing his degrees and then had trouble holding a job for more than 5 years, so DH moved a lot as a child.</p> <p>Right now, we are in Central FL because 1. we moved her to be near my MIL in 2009, because she had cancer and it was unclear whether she would make it (she did, praise the Lord!) and 2. DH is in a PhD program in Tampa. At first it was for convenience, but now it turns out that the professors in his particular fields here are recognized as being quite near the tops in their field so even though I'm not a big FL fan it works to stay here, where Chickie is close to her Granma and Papa. Although of course just as everything settles down FIL would have to turn in his resignation at his job down here and start hunting in places like Montana or Chicago. :) That's our crazy story. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-2776 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:09:19 +0000 Pepper 2776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've lived all over the place from a young age (4 different states, 4 different elementary schools!). I've lived in the same city now for over 15 years and DH was born and raised here. As much as I love traveling and experiencing new places, any future children we have will probably be raised here. I love our city and our friends and family are all here, for the most part. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-2164 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:50:10 +0000 Adira 2164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have every intention of having our children grown up in our "forever" home. A couple years ago, right before the husband and I got married, we bought a house. We bought something big enough to grow into as we have children, and we have no intention of leaving. Obviously things can change down the road, but the plan is to raise our children in this house. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-2093 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:46:21 +0000 Rock n Roll 2093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was an army brat so there was a lot of moving, but we finally settled down when I was in fourth grade and my parents still live in that house. Our daughter is already in her second place and she's not quite two. She was born when we lived around 2,000 miles from our families, and getting her back to grow up around family was a big catalyst in us moving back to the area last year. We're renting now, so we'll obviously move again at some point. I do want her to grow up around family, but I also really have a hard time staying in the same place for a long time. I guess we'll just play it by ear. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1955 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:42:20 +0000 Laneybugsmommy 1955@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're currently living in the house I grew up in. My mom moved away about two years ago and offered us this house for a very small amount of rent and we couldn't pass it up. So as far as I can see into the future, my daughter will not only grow up in my hometown but in my old bedroom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1828 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:46:10 +0000 alongfarview 1828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We moved several times as kids, and I've moved a bunch as an adult, but I've since moved back close to what I consider my hometown (and where my parents still are). We're farther away from my husband's family, but he doesn't want to live there (thank goodness, since I don't want to move there either!). I love this area and would like to be close to my parents at least while our kids are little (we weren't physically close to my grandparents growing up so didn't get to see them all that often, and I was always jealous of kids who saw their grandparents more).</p> <p>But I'm also realistic and if better job opportunities are elsewhere, then we'll go. However, given that we'd have to get relicensed for a different state (again), I doubt that'll happen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1818 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:57:05 +0000 LazyLightning 1818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, lots of hometown dwellers! I suppose that's really common though; I'm jealous of everyone who's family is so close. (Until I was a grown up, it never really occurred to me that most people didn't move around a lot like we did growing up.) Pity party side note: when my graduation application came, I didn't know what to put in the blank for 'hometown,' so I just put where I live now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1804 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:54:11 +0000 meaganceleste 1804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As a side note, while I'd LOVE to raise my kids in the same small town where I grew up, there's absolutely no career options for me or my husband there, bummer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1799 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:50:42 +0000 meaganceleste 1799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in Dallas about 3 hours from my hometown, where both of my parents were born &amp; raised and where basically all of my family still lives. Our eventual plan once we have kids is to move 2 hours closer (to Austin). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1793 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:14:15 +0000 Becksabee 1793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in my hometown, but my boyfriend's family is about 6 hours away. We're talking about moving closer to them in a few years, bu we haven't made any definite plans yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1787 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:58:28 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 1787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't live in our hometown (both the hubs and I are born in the same town) because throughout the years it has become a little ghetto and less safe to live in. We moved in a suburb which is known for families. </p> <p>But my family is close by, I couldnt live far from my parents. Everyone is MAX 20 mins away by car </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1765 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:40:09 +0000 yin 1765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I might just be attached to my hometown. I was raised here, went to school here, and now raising my family here. Only briefly did I experience living away, and I was miserable. My husband and I looked for our starter/first home two years ago, and we wanted a suitable place to raise a family. Of course I came drifting back to my hometown, and here we are! I didn't expect for our first home to be our forever home, but it definitely feels like it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1763 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:23:20 +0000 mediagirl 1763@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We stayed in one place as kids for the most part. We moved to Maryland when I was 2 and moved houses just twice while we lived there. I have been quite nomadic since moving out (living in NC, MD, NY, CT, MD and NC again since then). </p> <p>I bought a house in 2005, which we sold when we bought our current house in 2009. If the schools stay "ok" in our area and we are comfortable with our neighborhood as our kid/kids grow up, we will stay where we are. If things start to get sketchy and we get worried about the neighborhood, we'll move somewhere else, but we'll stay in our county, I bet. </p> <p>We love North Carolina and can't afford to move back to Baltimore now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-kids-grow-up-in-your-forever-home-or-home-citytown#post-1760 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:12:21 +0000 LazyLightning 1760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents were somewhat nomadic in my early childhood. My dad found better job opportunities and they took him various locations. I was born in Ontario, and before I was 10 I had lived in New York, Florida, and Minnesota. (Grandparents, meanwhile, lived in New York, Texas, and eventually Idaho..like my parents, my grandparents moved a lot when my dad and his sis were kids.) So I experienced living in a lot of places growing up, and traveling a lot to visit family. </p> <p>My husband was born and raised in the same town, surrounded by his family. They (the family) will no doubt live in that home their entire lives, as will future generations in many cases. </p> <p>My parents, meanwhile, have since moved from Minnesota to another state (far away) for a different opportunity; My in-laws live less than an hour from us now.</p> <p>While hubs and I have no solid future living plans, we do know we won't live in our home forever. We love it, but it has always been a "first home," not a "forever home." We also do not have plans to stay in our current city forever: we don't know where our future careers will take us. (And like my parents' lives, we'll probably move more than once...it's the life of a Ph.D, at least for many.) Ideally, we would be close to at least one of our families when our children are young, but we really don't know that either. </p> <p>So that's my story. What about you? </p>