Kristin, my wife and I are past ready to set roots somewhere. Relationships and the growth of those relationships, it they with people, a neighborhood, a town etc. are important to us both. Unfortunately this round of graduate schools is naturally transitory and although we our hearts desire to plant the reality is our situation lends it self to uprooting.  Despite this potential for movement, we love where we live - we are anomaly's within the emerging adult demographic. Despite the reality this is a rural, overwhelmingly white, politically conservative, underdeveloped, broken, small, Midwestern town, we love where we live. It that is a beautiful thing.

Although it is difficult, there is something true about pulling up roots and moving one. Struggling to pull up roots means that one had relationships that meant something, that one invested in the lives of those around them. All though it is never fun to feel the pain of pulling up roots, when one has to do so it is the symbol that something good has happened in that place.