this place doesn't seem so bad...
Sometime in the recent past, I came across this piece on SFGate.
In a city that seems to make families, especially those with kids, want to move, be it for affordable housing, quality schools, space(!), more affordable living, leaving SF is hard thing to even think about for a 2nd generation native like myself. Even moving down south to where I went to college was difficult for me to consider. But now, as a mommy of two, I’m starting to reconsider staying in the city by the Bay.
I thought the timing of the article was quite coincidental since S & I have been contemplating moving out of SF…even contemplating moving out of state, even out of the country. Even in conversation with friends, moving out of the bay area was a topic that seemed to come up. Family seemed to be the main reason for leaving, but quality of schools and generally, a better quality of life was the motivating factor to even consider leaving the Bay Area.
Now, S & I had always talked about moving to France one day. It wasn’t until we met the family we bought our car from that we started to contemplate moving out of the Bay Area…again. (The family was packing up their home in Oakland and moving to New Zealand!)
As it is a known fact (of course, it is!), that all native San Franciscans/NorCal-ers move north, heading north to Oregon seems to be trend among some of our friends. This place in Oregon in particular. So don’t be surprised if I blog, sometime in the future, about a family vacation to Oregon. 🙂
Nice, but it might be too cold for this CA girl
Of course, this couldn’t come at a more difficult time, with the economy in it’s current clusterf*** state. Thankfully, Peanut & Ringo are young enough that a move wouldn’t traumatize them too much.
Who knows what the future will bring and where we’ll end up? I’m just thinking out loud…for now.
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