Moving-adjust

[Dogmama50]

You have given it a good try, personally I think you know fairly quickly if you like living in a place or not, no reason to keep trying if it's not right. It also sounds like your values are very different than the ones in SD, that's something that you shouldn't adjust, stay true to who you are. Go home, it was an experience, you'll have lots of stories to tell your friends.

[LS35a]

There are nice people everywhere.

However it can be REALLY HARD to find them.

[Joy74]

If you both hate it, you should move back home. Feeling at home in a place is very important.

[staywarm2]

Midwestern people are different from the rest of the country. They are more real and often more down-to-earth. We left in 1992 and haven't found the same kind of people anywhere else.

Go home while you'll still fit in back there.

[dmlarue1]

I do think life is too short to spend in a place you don't like. I will say though that the worse homesickness I had was at 6 months. It really took me a year to get used to living so far from home. But I will say that I didn't like NC, but we moved to SC and I love it and am much happier. I don't know how much of that was the place OR the homesickness. I know that sounds contradictory...lol!

[NDak15]

I would normally say give a place two years. In this case, however, you might want to consider moving sooner. If you're serious about moving back to the Midwest your daughter might be grateful to be back to school with her friends.

I'm from Montana originally and we saw countless people move out there (oddly enough most were from California) and they realized the place was better to visit and not so nice to live in as reality set in.