We currently live in area A. My family all live within walking distance. DH's family are all a 5 minute drive away. My eldest is in his last yr of primary and currently all his friends live within a small radius.
So it's a lovely area, and we've been very happy here, but we need a bigger house and to afford that we need to move a few miles (literally three miles) up the road.
My mum is really not happy about this. In fact she's been really quite off with me. She keeps saying how sad it is for the kids to move away from all their friends and how different it will be when we can't just pop in to each other's houses anymore.
Added to this pressure is the fact that since starting ft work I have had less and less time to see my family. I used to work from home so I was always around and we would all see each other every day. My mother was quite cross with me about this on the phone yesterday and said I need to start making more of an effort.
I really feel pulled in all directions at the moment. I have three children and a full time job, social commitments, family commitments, viewings and all that entails.
Area B is still in the same town, the DC will still go to the same schools, there are busses for the older DC and we both drive, it's not the middle of no where and it's not far. And as for seeing everybody else, I am trying my hardest, but it's hard to prioritise seeing people who spend all their time criticising our choices.
Please help me make some sense of all of this, I am so stressed at the moment with everything that's happening and it's sucking all the joy out of what shoudl be an exctiting time, we have had an offer on our house but rather than feeling celebratory I've spent the weekend feeling sick that I'm upsetting everybody.