Help the Worthingtons choose where to move!

How's that for a blog post title?! Ok, perhaps I should back up a little and explain why we are planning to move. Well, Philip is actually on scholarship for dental school with the Air Force (have I never shared that on here before?!), and since he will graduate this May (this May, people! God willing!), we must move. For the first year following graduation, Philip is applying to participate in an AEGD program, which stands for Advanced Education in General Dentistry. This is a lot like what you might think of as a residency, and while many civilian (ie. non-military) dental graduates will also pursue an AEGD year, Philip is applying to do an Air Force program.

Is this all making sense? After this one year program, we'll move again, this time for a four-year commitment during which time Philip will work as a dentist on an Air Force base. But that's a couple years out. Right now, we are focusing on the AEGD year and where we'd like to request to move for that (of course the military has the final say in where we go!).


And this is where you kind people come in. There are fourteen domestic bases that offer an AEGD program, and we are required to rank all fourteen of them. We have our leanings right now, but I would just love to hear from yall! The bases are all over the place, and I'm thinking there have got to be some people reading this blog who might have some insight (or maybe just an opinion?) on one place or another. I mean, maybe you know that the Destin, Florida area is too beautiful to pass up. Or maybe you're sure that if we move to Colorado Springs all our troubles will go away? Perhaps you're from Biloxi, MS and you can confirm that the humidity there is worse than any good thing going in that town? Maybe the St. Louis area has an awesome Craiglist? (the value of Craigslist is not to be underrated!) These are the things I need to know. So, I am embedding a poll on the sidebar of this blog in the hopes that yall might take a minute to help us out! It would mean SO much to me if you would take a second and share your thoughts with us, either through the poll (where you can vote for multiple places) or in the comments, where you can tell me about craigslist :)


Here's a map to give you a better idea of the exact locations (in the interest of keeping the map relatively large, the Alaska base is not pictured). You can click to zoom out and see the entire country.



View My Saved Places in a larger map

{can I just say how impressed with myself I am that I was able to figure out how to get a google map image on my bog?! holla.}


And because I'm behind on getting my act together to show yall the gazillion pictures from our recent beach trip, here are two to tide you over!







ps. I'm not going to discuss this now, but there will be many, many tears shed over our move away from Richmond. We really love it here.