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DH just accepted a new job in a city about 4 hours away from our current city.
It is a good job, good pay and benefits, plus we really need it. (And you know how the job market is).
We have lived in that city before and it was not our favorite place, but it is not the worst place either.
The new job involves a good deal of overseas travel, so DH might be gone for 2 weeks at a time.
The 2 kids and I will stay in our current city through the current school year.
However, we can't decide if we should plan on staying in our current city one whole extra year for the following reasons:
1) We are concerned about our children, primarily our 8 year old, having to change schools. Our 8 year son has had to change schools twice in the last 2 years....we pulled him out of traditional school in the middle of last year, switched to a Montessori school, and then moved to the best Montessori school we could find. If we move at the end of this school year, he will have to change schools again. If we wait, he could finish out the cycle of the 3 year Montessori program, and then change schools.
Our 4 y.o. is in preschool and loves it; if we wait a year she would change schools at the start of Kindergarten. However, she is very gregarious and would have no trouble making new friends.
2) If we don't move right away, DH would have to pay extra to rent an apt. in the new city (the employer will cover a few months but not the year plus we would be looking at). The children would not see DH very often at all and I would in essence be a single mother. Also, I don't think this is a very good thing for our marriage.
3) We really love our current city. It is beautiful and we are 15 minutes to the beach.
4) The new city has slightly less expensive housing overall.
5) We have a little over one more year on our lease here....I don't know how hard it would be to break the lease or what kind of money we would be liable for. I would think the landlord could re-lease it easily but that is definitely a potential problem.
So the question is:
Should we move this summer?
Or wait a whole year and be apart a lot and move summer 2012?
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