Category: Family News

By Andrea Menzies

My daughter Alexandria refuses to move away from Virginia as of this month. I am therefore going to move to an area around Maryland near DC, and will never return to Texas or New Orleans. I cannot stand the Richmond area, but don’t want to move so far from my family I can’t visit. I have begged my family a million times at this point to move with me away from the Richmond, VA area. My sister Lily moved here and forced others to follow. It has been a fully disgusting experience moving to the area around the city of Richmond. I needed many surgeries right before I first moved to town, and had a bad divorce. The military was no other thing than a criminal assault pit done to me. I then recovered to better health. This gave many of the area people the wrong first impression that I have been sick and alone my entire life. I was a high school honors student, with many degrees, and was used to friendship before Virginia. Everywhere I turn I experience nothing but social bullying in this area of Virginia. I cannot stand it in this horrible place any longer, and am moving to the Maryland area this year. Every good concert goes to Maryland as musicians have learned to fear  lack of payment in Virginia. The Chesterfield and Richmond areas treat teachers like complete garbage, and the job market is MUCH better in other towns. Trying to recover from an illness and divorce in an area with bad music and a horrible economy has been a nightmare. I always had it in the back of my mind that I was going back to Texas or New Orleans. Now that my daughter refuses to move I cannot move that far away, and am moving to a new area close by the state border. I have not come to the decision lightly. My review of the area of Richmond is that it is horrible, and I give it one star. The rest of my life I will tell people to avoid it.