D.C. Area Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Moving Suggestions
Hello everyone! I'm currently living in the New River Valley area (Roanoke/Blacksburg/etc) but am looking to move over the summer. I am a Speech pathologist in a public schools, and would like to stay in that arena to keep my retirement benefits. I am trying to decide between the Richmond and NOVA areas. Any suggestions? I am a small-town rural kind of gal, but looking forward to the experiences of a city life! Thanks in advance for any help 
Re: Moving Suggestions
The closer you move to a large city (ie: DC) the less you experience small town, rural life. If you enjoy not having neighbors right on top of you and not being stuck in traffic for considerable amounts of time, the closer-in cities in NOVA may not be for you.
If you want to consider NOVA, try cities like Reston, Manassas and Herndon- things that are about an hour or so away from DC.
I hear Richmond is beautiful, although we haven't been. I have a friend who lives there and he says it is much more like where we grew up in the midwest than the really urban areas in and around DC.
For me, I enjoy the conveniences of "city" life and presence of cultural experiences, the availability of mass transit and good restaurants, plentiful shopping and the variety of choices an urban area allows me. That said, I don't live in DC, I live in Old Town Alexandria, because I can walk to work and get everything I need (including things from Target or another big box type of store) within 10 min.
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just have to say I am jealous!!! We would love to move to the NRV at some point but the jobs are not there for DH....He was a hokie and I lived in blackbsurg for grad school
that being said, Richmond and northern VA are VERY different. I was a teacher for 5 years before my DS, I love living in northern va where you have access to everything but you also have lots and lots of traffic...that is something you dont have in richmond.....i would take a look at job openings in both places and go from there..good luck!