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I sure as heck wouldn't be letting my kids tell me what to do and where we are moving. You are giving them far too much power.
Agreed, especially to move back to CA with its high taxes and wallet-destroying cost of living. Sounds to me like you risking the family's financial security so that your daughter can have a social life. I left California. I understand. . . I'm going there this weekend to hang out...but it sucks to live there unless you're wealthy and love to pay high taxes. While living there with no kids, we earned high just under $200k annually and squeaked by. It's crazy.
Location: Approximately 50 miles from Missoula MT/38 yrs full time after 4 yrs part time
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Hey Mr Wumpus........
You can file this under FWIW:
When our daughter (only child) was 12 yr old we moved from a very nice suburb some 40 miles north of Chgo to a suburb of Denver.... Daughter was born and raised in that Chgo suburb and loved living there with all her friends.
My wife and I knew the move would be quite hard on her, so since I had always wanted a horse, (we now lived where we could keep horses in a pasture right across the road), I bought a perfect ranch broke horse that she and I both could ride..(she considered it to be HER horse...that was fine with me). She soon developed friendships with other girls in school and the immediate area that also had horses. The "adjustment to CO" problem was solved, and within a couple of months, Dad bought another horse that would be HIS horse and soon thereafter, a 3rd horse was acquired for my wife.
For the next 7 yrs daughter competed in local, regional and state wide horse shows and did extremely well (unbeknownst to my wife and I) she was a natural-born equestrian !! Upon entering college, her involvement in showing horses lessened, but not her love of horses.
We as a family ended up having the 3 horses for 26 yrs and enabled me to have "deer, elk, antelope and bear hunting trips", that were fantastic.......and as a family, we had several horse back mountain camping trips that were most enjoyable and fun.
I became so attached to my horse, that when we decided to move to Montana, (and my horse was 20 yr old), she moved right along with us, and lived another 13 years right here on our 14 acres, and is buried within 50 yards from our home. I continued to use her as a horse for hunting trips into the back country of MT until she was 30 years old.
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