If you do, they almost certainly won’t be able to grow up with their grandparents. You’ll have to wait to have kids, and you may not have them at all. You’ll be separated from your partner for long stretches of time. You’ll move around from place to place unpredictably, from college to graduate school to postdoc research to professorship, until you’re 40 or so. The honest answer? “If you join us, the chances are very slim that you’ll end up living in your hometown. My family and friends are all nearby, and I’d like my kids to live in my community and take part in the same traditions I grew up with. My parents are looking forward so much to being grandparents, and my own grandparents need me to look after them. I have a boyfriend who also wants to be a scientist, and I’d like to get married and have a bunch of kids here soon. The young woman replies, “That sounds fantastic! But there’s just one thing.
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