Hi mumsnetters!
Sooooo me, DH and 3 DD’s are planning to relocate around 300 miles away from Kent. We have visited the county we want to live in and love it (before visiting it was a huge amount of research into it) We really can’t afford to stay in Kent house prices have gone crazy (we rent) if we picked our current house up and moved it to the new place we would save around £500pm on rent! So in reality we could actually get a much nicer and bigger house too!
The part of Kent I’m in isn’t even that good.. nothing to do with the kids unless drive away for the day I’ve been here all my life (32 years) our jobs we can do anywhere so no issue there. Our children are 13yrs 8yrs and 2yrs the biggest issue I’m having which may sound totally crazy is leaving the primary school! Bonkers I know! The age gaps I have mean that I’ve been doing that same school run for the past 10 years and therefore have built up a lovely relationship with staff and some of the other parents. (This has been a massively important thing to me as I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety a lot) the school have been like a family to me and filled in the gap of lack of family I have. If I have an issue even on a Sunday morning I can email the head of the assistant head and will always get a reply and support!
Every other aspect of our lives would improve with the move.. our secondary schools are not great and my eldest travels 30mins by car then15 mins on coach just to get to the best of the worst schools! I know we won’t have the primary school forever anyway but including my youngest children if we stayed here it would be another 8 years there and if we leave I may never get that sort of school again but if we don’t leave then finding new mummy friends is going to be so much harder without having that primary school- school run! We have outgrown our house and the rent will be increasing next year.
Sorry for the long post I’m just wondering if anyone else has started again somewhere new with children and been that new mum and wether they feel it was the right choice etc or even if you know someone who has or been in a school where a new mum has joined!
The kids are very happy with the idea of moving mainly because there are a huge amount of schools to choose from which will mean the possibility of walking to school as well as more things to do and bigger house/garden. As I write this it does sound silly that a primary school is holding me back but they really do feel like family!
If you’ve got to the end of this thank you 😂 I hope it’s not too jumbled up and confusing just tried to type as much about what I’m feeling as possible. It’s a huge decision and it’s not something we can actually reverse if we move as we will be priced out!
Xxx