Hi sistas,
I have a bit of a dilemma. At the start of this year my husband and I moved with our 3 kids to a beautiful country property which meant a change of school for our kindy and year 6 kids. The change was initially quite upsetting for our year 6 boy for the first week but since I have never seen our kids happier. The school is a tiny country school but is amazing and our kids have had so many more opportunities (lead in school musical, captains etc) and have a great bunch of friends. We don’t have any family support where we live but both have high pressure good jobs.
We are renting with the view to buy in the next two years. The dilemma is that my husband has been offered been offered a job paying a huge amount of money (350k), he has been working so hard and striving for this for the last 5 years. This job is in my home town with lots of family/friends support. I know moving now that our year 6 boy has finally found a place that he loves would be really upsetting to move again. I know he will need to change schools for year 7 but I feel very guilty about making him change again. If we do take the job we can buy a house straight away and we would be setting our family up for long term family security.
Money is certainly not everything but it would change our lives financially and take a lot of pressure off us.
What would you do? Has anyone regretted a change for their kids in a similar situation?
*my home town is 6 hours away so a long way to do weekend trips.
5 Replies
Could hubby go back for job and you stay there and let your grade six boy finish up at the country school?
Then he goes to high school in your home town.
You could both go back and forth throughout the year.
I had a school captain kid and it would have literally broken his heart if he had to leave.
I’d send hubby to stay with family, he can visit and you can visit in school holidays, finish the year off for the kids and then move.
I would move but make sure you stay put in the new place until kids have finished school. Yes it will be hard but kids are more resilient than we give them credit for. Small country town high schools are crap too (my kids are at one now) and you will be wanting to move in a few years anyway. Move now, it's like ripping a bandaid off the quicker you do it the quicker you get over it!
I 100% would go for the job. I would find some family who are willing to let your hubby stay with them whilst your son finishes year 6 in your current town and that’ll also give hubby time to do some good house hunting to find the perfect home for you all to move into :)
Depends what he gets paid now?