I'd move to the Northeast in a minute! Preferably a small seaside village. My daughter really struggled with moving and still misses our old house so these are great references. My favorite place we ever lived was Charleston. I'm not sure I'd enjoy it as much with kids, though.
As someone who grew up in the northeast in a (relatively) small seaside village, I can confirm it was an idyllic childhood. Curious to hear why you don't think you'd enjoy Charleston as much with kids? Is it too college town-y?
Touristy and from experience, navigating the sidewalks with a stroller is not fun! Now that both kids can walk, I think it would be better. Or we’d just get a bike with something they could ride in. I don’t want to live anywhere we’d have to commute an hour to go 10 miles so unless we could live “downtown” I’m not interested in this stage of parenting.
Oh gosh, this is great. We moved a lot early in my son's life, but still within the same suburban area. I would've loved to share some of these books with him! What I did that helped (I think!): I put together a "House" book, which was essentially a simple photo album with a couple pages on each of our houses we'd lived in, and adding the next one to show him where we were going and how we'd all be together, using the new house in similar ways - bedroom, kitchen, backyard, etc. Change is hard, but this helped me every time, too!
I'd move to the Northeast in a minute! Preferably a small seaside village. My daughter really struggled with moving and still misses our old house so these are great references. My favorite place we ever lived was Charleston. I'm not sure I'd enjoy it as much with kids, though.
As someone who grew up in the northeast in a (relatively) small seaside village, I can confirm it was an idyllic childhood. Curious to hear why you don't think you'd enjoy Charleston as much with kids? Is it too college town-y?
Touristy and from experience, navigating the sidewalks with a stroller is not fun! Now that both kids can walk, I think it would be better. Or we’d just get a bike with something they could ride in. I don’t want to live anywhere we’d have to commute an hour to go 10 miles so unless we could live “downtown” I’m not interested in this stage of parenting.
Oh gosh, this is great. We moved a lot early in my son's life, but still within the same suburban area. I would've loved to share some of these books with him! What I did that helped (I think!): I put together a "House" book, which was essentially a simple photo album with a couple pages on each of our houses we'd lived in, and adding the next one to show him where we were going and how we'd all be together, using the new house in similar ways - bedroom, kitchen, backyard, etc. Change is hard, but this helped me every time, too!