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To be scared of moving out of the city now that it looks like it is actually going to happen?

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lecce · 25/07/2012 20:36

Our house is sold subject to contract and we have just had an offer accepted on a house in small town about a 15-20 minute drive away from the city centre we currently live a 5 minute walk away from.

We wanted to move for better schools, to be nearer the countryside and away from the very occasional but very annoying incidents that we have had such as tyres being slashed, people shouting and swearing in the street etc. There have been a few shootings near us but we have absolutely loved living here. In many ways it is very family friendly - there are at least 10 great parks within a 10 minute drive/bus ride and these were all redesigned a couple of years ago. Loads of free family festivals/events on all year round etc.

I don't know - we loved living in a mixed, vibrant (if a little dodgy!) area and now we may be about to leave it all behind. Will we regret it? Are we selling out? Will we start reading the daily fail?

Can anyone who has done similar reassure me - I am having a wobble!

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olympickibucket · 25/07/2012 20:43

Well the only noise I can hear here is pigeons going up to roost knocks socks off wailing sirens and the dodge lot next door spliffing themselves senseless. 20 mins drive is nothing to get back to the good bits you mentioned.

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DontEatTheVolesKids · 25/07/2012 20:45

Small town small mindedness. Everything in life is a trade-off.

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JumpingThroughHoops · 25/07/2012 20:47

I'd rather live in a city than in small community. I say that as someone from a small community.

however 20 mins isn't exactly a life changing distance is it?

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WilsonFrickett · 25/07/2012 21:26

I could have written your post 6 months ago.

It will be fine. Fine but DIFFERENT. As soon as you accept you can be equally happy in a different place, living in a different way, it will click into place.

I wouldn't say 'oh we'd never go back' because who knows? We might, because we loved our life before. But I genuinely love my life now, too. I'd as DH but he's out in the garden building DS a gang hut for his birthday.

Some tips: it takes longer to make friends, for a number of reasons. And if you join something to meet people don't act like you have all the answers even if you do, I'm looking at you PTA And don't expect the schools to be perfect. I actually miss DS old school, I think it was a better school in a worse area, whereas this Ida worse school in a good area - they both probably come out the same, but for different reasons.

Be brave! You can always move back if you hate it. not that that was the only thing I thought about for the first three months

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