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My kids want to move back in with me
Lesley Barr never expected to be playing host to her own children when she bought a smaller house for herself in the Green Valley section of Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1994. But after her college-student daughter decided she didn't like her new roommates, there was no place to go but back home with mom.
"I was trying to downsize and de-stress a little and it didn't quite work out that way," sighed the 48-year-old real estate agent. Lesley came very close to selling her tidy house and moving into larger quarters to accommodate her daughter and her son, who also tended to use the house as a convenient crash-pad.
But then she decided no, for two reasons. For one, "I really liked the lifestyle I had chosen." But more importantly, she didn't want her children getting too comfortable with the arrangement. So Lesley has stayed in her small house and it suits her just fine, even if things are sometimes a bit crowded. "I didn't want to be going up," she said. "I wanted to be going down."
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