I quit my job not long after becoming a single parent when my daughter was 10 months old. That was back in the mid 1980s. The years I spent with my daughter we

I quit my job not long after becoming a single parent when my daughter was 10 months old. That was back in the mid 1980s. The years I spent with my daughter were amazing. I learned how to be a "mom", and it was a very enlightening experience. It changed me. She became the most important thing in my life. I was living in Los Angeles and realized I did not want to raise my daughter there so I started researching places I would want to raise her. I left LA just a couple years later. Fair to say I've lived a lower middle class life financially, but also fair to say a much better quality of life than most living in LA, and that includes Beverley Hills and Malibu. These are trade offs we all have to consider, but I do not regret getting out of the "Big City". I'd have probably spent 3 of the past 30 years sitting in gridlock traffic. It's worth doing the math on that.