I moved back to my boring hometown. As a parent, boring looks pretty good.
Source: Business Insider ·
I reluctantly moved back to my hometown to buy a house. Twelve years later, I'm raising my kids there and grateful for the decision.
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The author wanted to leave her hometown as a child.Courtesy of the authorI grew up thinking my small hometown was boring and couldn't wait to leave.Housing costs eventually brought my partner and me back when we wanted to buy.Now I appreciate the family support and community I couldn't see as a teenager.I didn't think parking spaces would have a particularly big impact on my life, but ultimately, it was the thought of not having to parallel park on the street every day that made me realize I was going to move back to the town I grew up in.My partner and I were trying to buy our first home together and hoped to stay in Oxford, the city where we had lived for the past five years.I was speaking to a real estate agent about what we were looking for, and he raised his eyebrows slightly when I told him our budget. He told me that if I wanted an off-street parking space within our budget, we needed to consider smaller towns outside the city.There was one town which we knew very well, as I'd…
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