Comment by CalRobert
1 day ago
The more responsibilities you take on the harder it is to make big changes.
I moved to a new country when I was 29 and it wasn't too hard. Doing it again, at 40, with 2 kids, was probably 50 times as hard (if anything I am understating it)
My mom, at least, tells me that life can get more interesting once the kids are 10 or so, apparently.
It’s seems bizarre and alien to me as a relatively new parent that you don’t seem to consider that a big change but instead an impediment to your travel plans.
Ummmm… I think you misunderstood what I meant, or I failed to communicate this well. Becoming a parent was the biggest change in my life and nothing else remotely compares, but with kids my day to day life follows a pretty standard routine and novelty usually makes them tired and cranky.