We Want to Follow Our Daughter to Her New College Town. There’s One Problem.

Care and Feeding Aug 13, 20261:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I are facing an empty nest in less than a year when our only child leaves for college six hours away. Our long-term plan has always been to move to a better job market closer to our daughter. We currently live in an economically stagnant town with increasingly stressful jobs and no room for growth. However, my husband is an only child, and we are the sole caretakers for his declining parents, who are closing in on their mid-70s. His father recently had a stroke that led to cognitive and mobility issues, his mother is growing forgetful, and both have suffe