Hello,

I am very interested in becoming a city/urban planner and I intend on attending graduate school at the University of IL at Chicago. I have heard that city planners are much more likely than other people in most other occupations to have to move to different cities frequently throughout their career. Now to my questions...

1. Is this truly the case?

2. If this is the case, how likely is it that one could be married, and go through those changes. This may sound like a silly question, but it is a concern to me. My girlfriend wants to become a Child Psychologist, and I do not believe that is an occupation that really entails alot of moving around to different cities. I suppose it is partially just based on people's personal preferences...but does anyone know anything about this from personal experience or have any statistics regarding the success and/or frequency of marriages in the city planning field?

Thank you in advance. I hope my question was clear.

Planners move around on their own accord. That's just their personality. Planning is a fairly 9-5 field. You will sometimes have to stay late and attend meetings and events on weekends, though. All in all, planning is a marriage-friendly field, unlike business, medicine and law.

This is such an interesting question as the context of semi-spousal advice in a real estate forum seems very different. I don't mean this in a frivolous manner as you're obviously serious. I'm not a planner nor even live in the US, but I do believe you can practice urban planning from one place which means it doesn't neccesarily mean you move around so much. In fact if you work in a city planning office you won't really be doing a lot of intercity travelling. In the end though while moving around with your spouse every so often may seem stressfull to you, some people may find it contributes more to a relationship as you both experience new things and are constantly growing. And in the end a happy marraige is constant work anyway and surely this is just one of many issues one needs to work on with their partner to make it work!

Marriage is never a good match with anything.
Dont marry, youll regret it.

A planner & a psychologist makes for a perfect couple IMO ;)

Marriage is never a good match with anything.
Dont marry, youll regret it.
:lol: really???

Thanks everyone for the input! I feel much better about things now. :) Bustero and James, those are all great points, which I have never considered before. I appreciate it!