Yes, I have a tag along partner who is very excited about the prospect of moving. He's a bit younger than me and hasn't been away from home much. I'm not too interested in NYC or Chicago or D.C. I've been to SF and to Boston, so I know I like those areas. I can't see Ann Arbor or C-ville as too much different than Lincoln, NE (100-200K college town) so those would likely be comfy fits too. My dh is a linux/novell administrator with 7+ years of network admin experience at a company with over 500 employees so I hope he can be pretty mobile.
The older kids who would stay have lives here, friends, boyfriends, school activities, that they aren't interested in uprooting, regardless of where I pick. But they are also supportive. They will have my ex and my parents for support, so though we'd all miss each other, I believe they'd still have the support they need to finish out high school (and prepare for college) successively.
co-eds, can't help you. some of the "kids" taking the test are just 5-6 years older than my oldest child. So... ewwww!
distractions, sorry no advice there either. I study at home, and at the library. With 5 kids, I'm pretty good at staying on task through distractions.
short term memory, I've noticed some pretty good ability increases as I've studied over the last 5 weeks. My brain cells seem to be retraining themselves away from babytalk and back to getting to work.
As to my WHY. I had always planned on going to law school. I just kept getting interrupted by the births of my first 3 kids. Then I got into the tech craze in the late 90's and spent 5 years doing that. I'm good at "playing the game" and usually just end up quitting a job that I'm unhappy in before I burn my bridges. But this summer, with my youngest over 18 months, I went to start to look for jobs, and there is just nothing that was interesting to me that also actually paid enough to 1) pay for daycare and/or 2) paid enough to justify the inconvenience of not having a parent home. With 5 kids, you have to get paid pretty well to justify that inconvenience! (as MBW knows). And so when I was brainstorming about what to do with the rest of my life, it occurred to me that I could go back to my original plan and go to law school. And it all snowballed from there. I had this revelation first week in July, got my study materials by the 3rd of 4th week in July, and here we are.
Sorry for the semi-hijack of your thread final_id
