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Grew up here, family is here, great place to live.
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We both grew up in this state, but we are living here currently because it's where my husband got into med school/residency. We would have gone where ever those two adventures took us. We also plan to live in this state when he is done residency.
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I'm here for school. BUT, I applied here because it's a cool city with low cost of living, with great opportunities for DH. So, lots of reasons!
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I voted job, since I moved for my career, but really it's for grad school. We will have to move again and it'll be for my career too, wherever the academic job market takes me. Luckily dh's work is very flexible-- he can work from home, thank goodness!
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DH was posted here in January so we packed up our life and shifted just over a month ago!
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@illumina: hahaha, no. This is my backyard right now. There's grass under there, somewhere.
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I grew up here, went to college here, and my family is here, plus DH applied to grad schools all over the country and ended up getting into and choosing a local school! We may move when he's done, but not tooo far away.
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I grew up about 2 hrs from here, but moved away for school and later work. I moved back 6 yrs ago after doing the long distance thing with DH for 2 yrs. Coincidence that he lived in the same city as my sister, but moving closer to family made the decision easy. (Plus the job market here was booming, unlike most of the country in 2008.)
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For a job (with the Navy). We will by somewhere new next year though!
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I grew up here. Also, this:
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I love it! Not too far from my hometown & family, but far enough.
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We moved here for my job. I don't think we will be here forever, but probably for the next 5-6 years if I continue to get loan repayment. I think after that we'll either move back to our college town where DHs parents live or somewhere fun!
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I hate where we live. We both grew up here and both of our families live here, as well. My husband loves it, though, so here we are. I'd love to live just about anywhere else. Anywhere. Seriously.
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I grew up in the state, though not close to where we live. DH moved here for a job, we met and when we got married we picked the town we live in because it's close to his work, has a good school system and we found a house we liked. It's not my dream location, but it's a good place to raise a child.
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I voted other. My parents moved here when I was in college. I moved home for a bit after grad school & met DH. We lived about an hour away for a few years and just bought a house 20 min from my parents this fall.
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Both DH and I are from here.
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@meganmp: wowwww. that is stunning
I originally moved here for college. we are both still here because this is where DHs job is. if it wasn't for this job DH would move in a second
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I moved here for an internship during grad school and then stayed for a permanent position at the same company. I met DH one of the first few days of my internship. He's from here and all his family lives here. We stay because we have jobs and friends and family near-ish, but we dream of moving somewhere with milder weather and cheaper cost of living.
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DH and I moved to SF after college for job/grad school. When we were ready to buy a house and have kids, we decided to move out of the city and to the suburbs. We found an area that we liked, wasn't too far from the city on public transportation, had good schools, and was affordable. The bonus is that we're about an hour away from where we both grew up -- which I think is the perfect distance from parents/ILs
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DH and I are from neighboring cities on the beach. He moved to our current city for college, I moved thousands of miles away but came back after just not being able to handle a New England winter. We met when I was visiting friends in this city and did the long-distance thing before I moved here to be with him. I was fortunate to have access good schools and jobs in both places. The average age of our hometowns is 30 years older than where we live and the cost if living is significantly more affordable so though we have lots of ties to there, and it is technically paradise, we don't want to mode back
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Moved here (3 hours away from hometown) with DH (then BF) for his job.
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I moved here the first time for a job. I met my now DH here, and he grew up here. I left for law school but moved back to marry him.
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I moved to where I live now b/c my dad got relocated when I was in school and I couldn't stand being states away. (Can you say homebody?)
I'm still here because I can't convince my husband to move to a warmer locale!
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We have no choice
We work in academia and we can't get new jobs in our fields very easily.ETA: neither of us grew up or went to school here.
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Whole mix of reasons.
I first came to this area 14 years ago for college. I met DH here and we fell in love. Yada Yada. I then moved back after college to be with him. We ultimately decided to settle here and raise our family because it's a great family firendly city, affordable and conducive to the way we want to raise our kids. I will always be a NYC girl at heart but living in NYC is not how we want to raise our kids. We want a big house, big open backyards for them to run around in. We want them to know the country and not by driving an hour to get to it. These are all things a normal middle class family can not achieve in NYC.
I was very worried our children would not be "cultured" by being raised here. The thought of our children never riding public transportation till they're a teen or until the visit the "big city" scares the crap out of me. But I realized that hey, I'm from NYC and my family lives there. They will be there 3-4x a year. They'll be plenty "cultured". -
we just like the Boston area - I moved to NYC for DH before we got married but I was pushing to move back to Boston (which we did after two years). we'd both lived in Boston before for school and my company had an office there so it was easy (DH was laid off at the time). we might be moving to TX this spring for a new job for DH and it will be a HUGE lifestyle change for us - some good, some bad.
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No choice for moved here for graduate school!
I did, then stayed for a bf, then broke up, then stayed for a job, then met my DH, then stayed for him. Neither of us are from this area, so we constantly talk about moving away to be closer to family, but haven't really pulled the plug.
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We decided to stay in the state where we grew up and we decided that it would be beneficial to live by family so we picked a neighborhood we love and it's about 15 minutes from my parents and 15 minutes from my in laws, it's perfect for us!
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@JoJoGirl: I added grad school to the college option-- moving for school in general seems close enough.
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@Foodnerd81: I suppose! I guess I see it as different because I left home once for college (east coast to midwest) and moved to a completely different part of the country (northeast) for grad school. With a year abroad in between. So many moves!
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@JoJoGirl: True. I added another option, though my poll may not be scientifically valid anymore
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Moved to be with hubs, then chose our town because it's a nice place to raise LO. It's not so far from where he grew up, but he's never been to our town prior to us initially visiting it.
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DH got into law school here. I became established in a career I love, and he found a job here post school. We're only 3 hours from our families (which is close enough but not too close!) and have a great network of friends. So we're staying!
Plus, Kansas City is an incredibly affordable city to live in.
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We both went to college here, then ended up with jobs here... both our hometowns are also only 20-30 minutes away, so we just always stayed around. It's a really great city too, so we haven't really had any reason to leave.
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