Re-introduction

Rosalie B. wrote:
Clisby wrote:

Babie wrote:
Hey folks,

I'm not sure if any of you will remember me or not, but I recently
decided to resubscribe to this NG.

Here's some information about my family.

My name's Les. My partner's name is Jarrod. We have a 5 year old
daughter and we also, up until about 3 months ago, raised my almost 9
year old niece.

I was an extremely nervous/excited first time father. Now that our
little one's "grown up" I've found all new questions I may need quick
answers to, and this NG gave me so much help 5 years ago I thought I
could jump in here again.

We currently live in Albuquerque, NM, but we're really in need of a
move. Alegra (DD) wants to finish kindergarten with the same teacher so
we're waiting until June to move. Our plan is to move to Fresno, CA, so
I've been obsessively looking for new homes in that area *grin*

I know I'm leaving out a LOT, but that's us in a nutshell (whatever that
means)

LES!

Hi, I remember you! I'm putting in my vote for moving in the summer
rather than midyear.

I think it also depends on whether there are a lot of military families in the
area or not. When we lived in Florida, practically everyone was connected to
the military, so the schools and teachers were used to having kids come and go
through the year and had procedures for that. Here where we re now it is the
same. The are two types of people living here - military and local long time
residents. It was the same in California - there was a large transient
population.

In Boston and later in RI we lived far from the base and you weren't a local
unless your grandparents were born there.

Charleston (SC) is like that, too. Although it might have to be a
great-grandparent; I'm not sure.

(I bought an old wardrobe from the
lady down the block who sold antiques and asked her about a little girl I saw on
her bike at the end of the driveway, and she said - oh those are the new people.
The 'new people' had been there for 12 years and ran the local store.) And in
California, the 'old people' were friendlier to newcomers. We lived in south
Philly for part of one year, and I don't think the kids had any particular
trouble there either.

There's a (perhaps apocryphal) story about a 90-year-old man whose
parents had brought him to Charleston as an infant. He was a succssful
businessman and civic leader. At his funeral, the minister's glowing
eulogy began, "Although he was not one of us ..."



Of course in the military you don't get much choice about when you move.