Similar experience to Kellie-- We moved from base housing in Illinois to our "forever home" in South Carolina and my kids **always** talked about how much they liked our house in Illinois more. Our SC house is much bigger and just more "home-like", with a big backyard, we don't have to share a wall with our neighbor, there's a pool in the neighborhood, etc. but all they said was that they missed Illinois! We found that the solution to this was to move again to Turkmenistan....now our kids can't wait to get back home to South Carolina, hahaha.
Anyway, Facetime/Skype are great for still "hanging out" with grandparents. And my daughter has a couple friends whose moms got the Marco Polo app so they could send each other quick video messages (so much easier than scheduling Facetime with our time difference).
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