Originally Posted by LloydC

Great advice as well, and pretty much what we're planning on doing. Our additional "degree of difficulty", however, is a rising High School Junior. With that in mind, we're figuring we'll move to one of the junior domiciles (NYC, DTW or ATL) for at least two years (and probably five, since that will get Dash-2 through HS as well) before making the final move out west (unless we grow to love NYC or DTW ). Hence the point of my original post, trying to get a sense of what the situation's like for a NYC-based pilot living in base. Again, thanks to all for your advice.