Where are the 30 year old DINKS?
Hello,
As my title says, where are the 30 year old DINKS( dual income, no kids??
I guess I expected Lowell to feel more like a city in terms of the age of the people if that makes sense. I mean, I know Lowell is a city, but it feels like I moved to a suburb( in some ways, the constant sound of ambulances, sirens, etc remind me that I am in a busy city). I would have expected this if we ended up in Tewksbury or Billerica, but I thought Lowell would have more young people being a city and all.
For context,
I used to live in the Boston area, and then my husband and I bought a house in Lowell because it’s really one of the only towns/cities we could afford to buy something in eastern-northern Massachusetts( where both our families live).Plus it’s not too far from my husbands job. We have been here 2 years, and I feel like it’s been difficult to meet other people our age. I am 30, and my husband is 31. We don’t have kids ( we want to in the future, but def aren’t ready for at least a couple years). I’ve joined a number of community things, such as a softball league, Pilates studio, etc. and every time I do, I meet lovely lovely people, but it’s mostly women in their like 40s to 50s, with grown up children. Again, I’ve met a lot of lovely people, but it would be nice to meet some people my age
I feel like I messed up leaving Boston, it’s been a couple years and this feeling hasn’t gone away. Not to mention I work in the Boston area and all my coworker friends always want to hang out in Boston so I end up spending a lot of time on the highway driving back and forth. I am beginning to question if maybe we should sell and go back to renting closer to the city ??