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<blockquote data-quote="Sheepdog86" data-source="post: 1558043" data-attributes="member: 24402">I would add two decision considerations as someone who is Orthodox, the father of five, and a professional strategic analyst and planner.&nbsp; The first is whether or not there is a vibrant, conservative - or at least not trending towards the apostasy of &quot;wokeness&quot; - Orthodox parish close enough to involve your family in parish life.&nbsp; This matters a great deal if you have a family.&nbsp; We are not saved alone and even the Desert Fathers tended to form communities.The second criteria is the opportunity to earn some sort of living within your skills sets and abilities.&nbsp; Ideally, consider an ability to engage with a parallel economy. One must be careful not to allow pride to dictate in the sense of &quot;I'm an engineer/whatever and can only work in that field.&quot; Honorable work you can do to feed, clothe, and house your family and that gets you close to a good parish is the goal, not wealth and &quot;success,&quot; but you do have to be able to work.Just a couple of thoughts from someone who has, in fact, moved his family to a place where there is only a COVID-steric, vaccine happy, stereotypical ethno-centric GOARCH parish.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sheepdog86, post: 1558043, member: 24402"] I would add two decision considerations as someone who is Orthodox, the father of five, and a professional strategic analyst and planner. The first is whether or not there is a vibrant, conservative - or at least not trending towards the apostasy of "wokeness" - Orthodox parish close enough to involve your family in parish life. This matters a great deal if you have a family. We are not saved alone and even the Desert Fathers tended to form communities. The second criteria is the opportunity to earn some sort of living within your skills sets and abilities. Ideally, consider an ability to engage with a parallel economy. One must be careful not to allow pride to dictate in the sense of "I'm an engineer/whatever and can only work in that field." Honorable work you can do to feed, clothe, and house your family and that gets you close to a good parish is the goal, not wealth and "success," but you do have to be able to work. Just a couple of thoughts from someone who has, in fact, moved his family to a place where there is only a COVID-steric, vaccine happy, stereotypical ethno-centric GOARCH parish. [/QUOTE]

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