Rural as in our neighbors have tractors and I can see horses from my bedroom window but also it’s about a 10 minute drive to McDonalds and civilization…so definitely not “Cornfield Cruiser” territory! I actually had to look up that term which should give you some sense of how much South Jersey is a separate universe from the rest of Jersey.
If you look at the first one on the second row, we basically moved from the orange “Diversity” area down to the green “Farmlands” section but still nowhere close to the light green “Pineys” where I think Moorestown is located.
PS: the “Taylor Ham” people are just WRONG and Central Jersey most definitely exists!!!
My youngest is starting college at Pratt in the fall and since we no longer needed to live in a town with a highly rated school system (read: ridiculous property taxes), we also decided to move.
We closed last week and just started settling in. Moving in your late 40s is definitely different than moving in your twenties. There’s a bittersweet quality to it. But I think moving closer to family is always a good idea (unless you have a crazy, neurotic or toxic family in which case you should get as far away as humanly possible!)
I grew up in a tightly knit community full of aunts and uncles and cousins and pseudo-aunts and uncles and cousins and my parents would just let us loose to explore the neighborhood and discover new, fun ways to hurt ourselves. It was great! I’ve always tried to recreate that kind of environment for my kids as much as I could.
I wish you the best for this new chapter in your life even if you’re now lacking the comfort of instant nuclear annihilation ;)
Congrats on the move, Maryah! And congrats to your youngest. We're trying to do that, though do have family here in Virginia, too. My wife's sister is military and doesn't really get much family time, so while they'll have to leave at some point, they plan to return, and we're hoping to give them a good few years of family experience along with my mother in law.
Cincinnati won't likely be a direct target, so nuclear war will be a more painful death if that happens ;)
Thanks! We didn’t move that far. We’re still in Jersey - but just a bit more rural. We figured it would be good to stay around family because my parents are getting up there in age. We’re nearing the “sandwich time” of life but not quite there yet.
Pratt is in Brooklyn and we like the idea of UC being able to come home on random weekends if he feels like it. I imaging your kids are probably still young but it hits you pretty hard when they leave. Don’t know if you’ve ever read Michael Gerson’s piece on dropping his son off to college but it’s excellent:
The twins are almost 7. They had to switch schools next year no matter what. So it was going to be an emotional fallout anyway for them. I am not a big emotional type, but I am sentimental. By rural do you mean near the Cornfield Cruiser?
Rural as in our neighbors have tractors and I can see horses from my bedroom window but also it’s about a 10 minute drive to McDonalds and civilization…so definitely not “Cornfield Cruiser” territory! I actually had to look up that term which should give you some sense of how much South Jersey is a separate universe from the rest of Jersey.
Here’s a set of handy maps:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/cRwLhGlBCS
If you look at the first one on the second row, we basically moved from the orange “Diversity” area down to the green “Farmlands” section but still nowhere close to the light green “Pineys” where I think Moorestown is located.
PS: the “Taylor Ham” people are just WRONG and Central Jersey most definitely exists!!!
Who Says You Can’t Go Home?
My youngest is starting college at Pratt in the fall and since we no longer needed to live in a town with a highly rated school system (read: ridiculous property taxes), we also decided to move.
We closed last week and just started settling in. Moving in your late 40s is definitely different than moving in your twenties. There’s a bittersweet quality to it. But I think moving closer to family is always a good idea (unless you have a crazy, neurotic or toxic family in which case you should get as far away as humanly possible!)
I grew up in a tightly knit community full of aunts and uncles and cousins and pseudo-aunts and uncles and cousins and my parents would just let us loose to explore the neighborhood and discover new, fun ways to hurt ourselves. It was great! I’ve always tried to recreate that kind of environment for my kids as much as I could.
I wish you the best for this new chapter in your life even if you’re now lacking the comfort of instant nuclear annihilation ;)
Congrats on the move, Maryah! And congrats to your youngest. We're trying to do that, though do have family here in Virginia, too. My wife's sister is military and doesn't really get much family time, so while they'll have to leave at some point, they plan to return, and we're hoping to give them a good few years of family experience along with my mother in law.
Cincinnati won't likely be a direct target, so nuclear war will be a more painful death if that happens ;)
Thanks! We didn’t move that far. We’re still in Jersey - but just a bit more rural. We figured it would be good to stay around family because my parents are getting up there in age. We’re nearing the “sandwich time” of life but not quite there yet.
Pratt is in Brooklyn and we like the idea of UC being able to come home on random weekends if he feels like it. I imaging your kids are probably still young but it hits you pretty hard when they leave. Don’t know if you’ve ever read Michael Gerson’s piece on dropping his son off to college but it’s excellent:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/17/michael-gerson-column-goodbye-child/
If you’re a bit of an emotional type, it’s a good idea to have an onion around just in case you need an excuse for the tears ;)
PS: I think you’ll be ok: https://www.mirasafety.com/blogs/news/survive-nuclear-fallout
The twins are almost 7. They had to switch schools next year no matter what. So it was going to be an emotional fallout anyway for them. I am not a big emotional type, but I am sentimental. By rural do you mean near the Cornfield Cruiser?