Hi all
We recently relocated from Reading, back in August. Now living in Norfolk.
We have three kids, a 7 year old boy and twin girls who are 2.
Myself and my partner are regretting our decision to move here.
I personally find it practically impossible to find much in the way of toddler groups. They're are a few, but not many. In general, the whole area is alot quieter than we'd imagined. We knew it would be less busy than Reading but wasn't prepared for just how much it lacks in respect to kids activities, softplays, farms etc.
I know it's still very early days, but this is not the place I can see myself living for the rest of my life.
My little boy didn't want to move from Reading because he would miss all of his friends. Since starting school here, it's been quite a struggle some days but I think he's slowly starting to get a bit more settled.
He's made friends, however he doesn't seem to be interested in seeing them much outside of school and doesn't seem to have bonded with anyone yet, although obviously it's still very early days.
We moved here for a quieter way of life for the kids, but now we feel like it's the complete extreme.
Job wise, my partner works from home.
The twins can't go to nursery for another year and a bit because we aren't entitled to the funding. This would be different if I was working part time, then they'd be able to go to nursery but it's virtually impossible to find any jobs here, even less so when the job I would need would have to fit in with school runs, childcare etc.
So as such, my twins can't start nursery until the term after they turn 3 (turned 2 in September).
Everyday I'm struggling to find things to take them to. Every weekend we struggle to find things to do as a family.
We just feel like we've made a mistake and have talked about relocating, possibly to somewhere near Kent.
My concern is my son. He's in year 2, and as I mentioned he's already been finding it hard to settle here.
I'm worried that if we relocated again, he wouldn't be able to handle it.
I know kids are resilient but I just think it would be too much.
But I feel like this is not the life I wanted for us and the kids. Job opportunities are likely to be non existent when they're older so they'd probably move away themselves.
If we did look at relocating again, it's not something that happens overnight and we'd be looking at months or longer before actually moving, and I feel like the longer we leave it, the more difficult it would be for him too.
We would have to be so sure that we were relocating there permanently.
Just wondering if anyone has done similar?