Wanting to Try North Carolina Again

[dnbnv-n]

Might I make a suggestion? If you really can not decide 'where' you want to live, buy an RV and travel. Homeschool your kids for a year and find a place that the entire family feels they can adjust to. You keep uprooting your family and it sounds as if you are the only one that is unhappy. I was reading a post of yours from 2009 that you wanted to move to NH. I agree with another poster that said you need to find out why you are unsettled and go from there. Yes, kids are resilent, but it really isn't fair to them or your wife. I too have kids and have been wanting to move out of state. We have been doing our homework for several years now, decided where we ALL want to move and are lining things up to make it happen. We have not made a rash decision and moved overnight, just to move again. Will our move be the right place for us? Not sure, but all of us are decided and if it doesn't work out - we will cross that bridge when we get to it.

[touretteboy65]

I've been keeping up with the politics of NC, and yes, some of what's been going on there is unsettling. No place is perfect, and it does seem the schools there are taking a hit, as are the teachers. Have they been leaving at the numbers the media has been reporting, or is it more exaggeration?

As far as decisions go, we're not going to be making it overnight. We're curious about Asheville and other western NC cities as well. As much as I would like to relocate, I want everyone in my family to be on board with this; we've (especially me) learned from our mistakes.