My quiet, suburban, Delaware neighborhood is rapidly being taken over by Mexican gangs. One gang leader lives directly across the street from me, with some of his friends and family (18-20 people in a 3 bed house!). It’s getting scary here. Just the other night there was some sort of retaliation going on. 25 or so guys with baseball bats were freaking out, screaming in spanish and beating on cars and people. They were carrying guns, and brandished them, but I don’t think any were fired. My hubby doesn’t want to move at all. He claims it’ll never happen again. He claims the risk of being shot in a crossfire of a gang war is equal no matter where you live. (I think he’s insane.) He thinks it’s no big deal, but I fear for the safety of my little kids.
My parents live in an itty-bitty Tennessee town. They moved there 3 years ago, and they love it. It’s super quiet and peaceful. They do gardening and fishing. They could have chickens if they wanted them. One of my goals in life is to have a little hobby farm. Chickens are illegal here.
There are 100 reasons for me to move my family to Tennessee. My dear hubby refuses. He say we’ll divorce first. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m willing to call his bluff on it.
Right now, I don’t work, and he supports us. I home-school and take care of the house. My intention is to get a job in Tennessee and support the family myself. I will actually be able to make more money than he ever could, since I’d be working for my father, and he makes a pretty good living without even trying. I figure it will be a decent trade-off for DH, considering. He’ll have to do the home-schooling and the housekeeping, but he says he’d like to do that “instead of working”. Maybe he’ll change his mind after a while, once he realizes that it IS work to home-school 2 kids and keep house.
So far, I haven’t said anything to him, but we MUST move, no matter where we go. Right now I’m just cleaning and decluttering everything. Next I’ll paint and replace the carpets. Once I’ve gotten it to the point where it looks like I’m already handling everything on my own anyway, I’ll let him in on the plan. I KNOW without a doubt he will fight me tooth and nail on this, so the less time spent in opposition, the better.
