Who has MOVED from their home state ? How difficult was it for you?

[BDF6]

I am in the process of, and actually moving things OUT.

I really like most everything about CA, but what I don't like has slammed the scale down on the 'leave' side.
The new place will be like a 'vacation home' until I just simply never come back.
Which my wife is afraid of every time I go up there.

Good luck & best wishes for all you who need or simply want to move to somewhere else for whatever reason!

 

[Swamp Ape]

Grew up in northern MN, moved to an island off the coast of Georgia. Hardest part was moving away from family and friends, and losing our support structure. But, we don’t regret it at all. Taxes are better, people are better and best of all, it was 31 degrees back home and 89 degrees here today. Even caught a couple fish after work from the beach for dinner

 

[moparedtn]

People from the northeast have been moving to Florida for decades and it steadily gets more difficult for me.

...and then they wind up moving up here from FL.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

...and then they wind up moving up here from FL.

People keep moving here from Mexico, Guatemala & Honduras..... Oh, And LA LA Land...

 

[moparedtn]

People keep moving here from Mexico, Guatemala & Honduras..... Oh, And LA LA Land...

"That which you subsidize, you get more of...."

 

[BrianS]

Hey KD I just might beat you out of here, lol My plan was always to eventually move back to Missouri where my entire family is but when my son moved to Idaho with the grand kids it sort of threw a monkey wrench in my gears. Not to mention our middle son now says he moving to Idaho after the first of the year.
I just got back from Idaho again this last week and my wife gave me the green light to start looking for something up there. So I now have a realtor and am actively looking. As I mentioned on here before we have been hanging out here since her parents have health issues, we have talked with them until we are blue in the face about escaping the Peoples Republic of California and they have dug in their heels and refused to leave and discouraged us on leaving. They pretty much left us no choice but to go without them in a way they were forcing us to choose between them and our kids and grand kids, really messed up on their part.

Hopefully we can find a place pretty quickly and be out of here asap. As far as states I have lived in you will be able to ad Idaho to Missouri, Kentucky, Oklahoma and California.

 

[DeltaV]

Here you go @Kern Dog

https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/bfd/d/portland-425-acre-beautiful-farm-on-the/7416353377.html

 

[68BabyBlue]

I am in the process of, and actually moving things OUT.

I really like most everything about CA, but what I don't like has slammed the scale down on the 'leave' side.
The new place will be like a 'vacation home' until I just simply never come back.
Which my wife is afraid of every time I go up there.

Good luck & best wishes for all you who need or simply want to move to somewhere else for whatever reason!

I visited the Napa Valley for a week during a conference I attended 25 years ago, and dreamed of possibly retiring there (at the height of my career in big corporate trucking, it looked financially possible). That dream hit the rocks when the company imploded a few years later. Instead, I ended up back in my home state of Pennsylvania, which doesn't have what I'm sure both of us consider the pluses of northern California. Weighing the balance sheet under current conditions, however, I think I ended up in the better location overall. Yes, the winters aren't great, but once I quit truck driving, that won't matter. Family is all here, which a deciding factor for many, if not most of us. Like West Virginia, cost of living here is relatively cheap, because of few decent paying jobs (steel mills and coal mines have all but died out). I made my money working in Chicago (which IMO is the armpit of the world), and brought it home, kind of like the guys who worked the Alaska pipeline in the 1970s. A decade ago, I would vacation in California, was always happy to return to PA.

 

[Brandy]

If I wasn't married I would move to Northern Italy in a heart beat.

 

[5.7 hemi]

Eye candy??

 

[DeltaV]

If I wasn't married I would move to Northern Italy in a heart beat.

Are you sure we're not related?

 

[Kern Dog]

In the 80s, a friend went to Ireland with his Mother. She was born there and wanted to visit with some relatives that stayed behind.
Mike commented on how green it was and the beautiful scenery but also how small the cars were and that almost everyone back there lives a fairly spartan life. Small home, few possessions and next to none of the conveniences we have here. It has probably changed a bit in the 38 years since his visit, right?
I've never been out of the country.

 

[fratzog lover]

If I wasn't married I would move to Northern Italy in a heart beat.

I never knew you wuz Italian! I have never been back to Calabria or Sicily.

 

[Brandy]

Eye candy??

Temperature, scenery, old world pace of life, mountains, nearby borders, cost of living, culture, I just have always loved that section of the planet ever since I toured through skiing and hiking in the 1970's.

 

[Brandy]

In the 80s, a friend went to Ireland with his Mother. She was born there and wanted to visit with some relatives that stayed behind.
Mike commented on how green it was and the beautiful scenery but also how small the cars were and that almost everyone back there lives a fairly spartan life. Small home, few possessions and next to none of the conveniences we have here. It has probably changed a bit in the 38 years since his visit, right?
I've never been out of the country.

Then you have missed a lot. It's a big beautiful world out there for the most part, despite what the media may try to make you believe. I don't regret for an instant all of the traveling I have done all over Europe and the Near East. My stock of memories is deep and rich.

 

[Brandy]

I never knew you wuz Italian! I have never been back to Calabria or Sicily.

I'm not. lol. I AM Scottish though. With a little English and German tossed in to round out the gene pool. I have just traveled so much through Central Europe back in the day and Northern Italy is a fabulous place.

 

[Brandy]

I never knew you wuz Italian! I have never been back to Calabria or Sicily.

Specifically, the Lombardi area, Bolzano & Bergamo and in between around the Lake Garda area. It's at about the same latitude as Vermont, just a little North maybe but the Mountain ranges between Switzerland, France and Italy regulate the temp a lot.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Wife is from Pula Croatia it's across the Adriatic Sea of Venice. Nice to visit but I'd and she would die of boredom.

 

[Brandy]

Wife is from Pula Croatia it's across the Adriatic Sea of Venice. Nice to visit but I'd and she would die of boredom.

I have had my fill of people and excitement, tourist spots and cities. I just want a simple life, like I have here.

 

[streetmachine]

Kern Dog. I haven't read all of the pages of this thread but, just a few. Maybe someone has said this already or maybe not. Anyways, if you could sell your property for a good chunk of change and have a nice safety set from the proceeds then go for it. Now here's something to think about. If you move to a new place and don't like it or things don't pan out then the question is could you afford to move again? The other part of that question is if you buy a new place in this current market and then the market crashes like 2008-2009 can you afford/want to absorb the potential loss of say 50-100k for example?

The thing I've read that it takes about a year on average to get settled into a new location and to know if it's really working out for you as well. The other thing to consider is maybe consider renting but, that depends on the market where you relocate to. Some places, the rent just keeps going up and up. For example, I wanted to relocate to the Northwest but, back in 2006-2007 the rent price was around $800-1000 per month for some of the places today, the rent price is anywhere from $2000-$2500 per month (currently) not including the security deposit and application fees. Prices are up everywhere just some places are way more expensive than others. Anyways, just adding this in case you haven't thought of it already.