California mom relocating to Az

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Registered: 01-04-2005
California mom relocating to Az
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Thu, 04-05-2007 - 4:03pm

I need some positive feed back regarding my move to AZ. I currently live in westlake Ca, The safest neighborhood,highest rated school district,30 miles from the beach,arts /dining,shopping, and celibrity residence, but very expensive.

My husband ,me and my 4 children live here(16,10,8 & 16 month). My husbands parents and sister live in Avondale. My husband has graet opportunity to take over dads buisiness as he will be retiring. It is also much more affordable to actually own a house and start my own business.

My husband and 2 daughters will move in summer,Me and my 11th grade son and 16month old will stay and move after my son graduadtes next year.

I have lived in Cali all my life not crazy about AZ,but trying to make the best of it. Does anyone have encouraging things to say about AZ. I have heard Scotsdalle has a good neighborhood and scholl district is that true ? What ccccity near pheonix what be comparble to where Im living now? How bad is Avondale because I really not impressed enough to stay there?

And am I doing the right thing by staying with my son ? Wouldn't it be a bad thing to send him to school in his last year? It's just going to be a finacial hardship because I think Its important for my baby to stay with me also but I will have to put him in daycare so i can work.

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Registered: 03-22-1999
Sat, 04-14-2007 - 3:01pm

Sorry I don't know anything about AZ.

One thing I haven't seen anybody mention as far as your older DS goes....this is from observing others' experiences, not my own. When a child is left at their "old school" for senior year (either with another family or by splitting the family and one parent staying with them), the child never seems to regard the new home as "their" home. They don't want to spend summers or breaks off from college there because they have no friends and nobody to hang out with. They probably will feel no pull to start their career there after college either. Now your situation may be different if your DS wants to join the family business, but it's something to take into consideration. I guess many people don't have any expectation of their children setting up house as adults anywhere near them, so this may not be an issue to you anyway. What a tough choice to make! Good luck.

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Registered: 01-04-2005
Sat, 04-14-2007 - 5:44pm
Hi thanks for your input, your right,I did give that some thought ,I would definatly prefer to be close to my children as adults, but after he graduates it will be his dicision. I figured he will stay in cali get a roomate and go to school here,( and thats only if his friends don't all go away to different schools, or go to college in AZ and work with me in the business Im starting there. If he chooses to stay he would come visit at breaks because hed be there all the time , And if he didn't come to AZ I we wouldn't have a problem coming to CA to visit at all ,that will always be home to us we lived their all our lives and I love it. Its just a 2hour plane ride and 7 hours by car. And my dughters may even want to go back to california as adults because of the opportunitys that are available in the fields they are interested in,and if that be the case we would be retired at that time and would consider being able to retire in Santa Barbara,Ca like we originally planned. But for now I 'm not concered about that Im taking it one day at a time and the rest is in Gods hands.
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Registered: 01-04-2005
Sat, 04-14-2007 - 6:30pm
Thanks for your informative input

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