Have any of you just uprooted and moved somewhere?

Yes during military service but there were step-by-step procedures in place, the only thing you had to worry about was your mode of transportation whether by car, bus, train, or plane.


Hotwater

 

Seems like I've done it a million times.

 

I've made a move of 3000+ miles several times without really knowing what was on the other side. Many shorter ones also but too far to keep in touch with what I left behind. Several of those with very few of my belongings, I just split, man.

 

How does your wife feel about it? It sounds like a great opportunity. I say go for it, keep what you're doing so you can pick up where you left off or sell later if that's what you need to do, but yeah, why not?

 

That's what I'm thinking but my wifes family (who lives there) told us that hey went out to the property and couldn't make it down the road. It's 16 miles from town but the estimated drive to town is 39 minutes because the road is so bad. Perfect!!! I have a pretty badass Jeep! And most people can't get out there to talk to me. She's turned off by it...I'm super happy about it. Plus...the place next door is worth $1.86 million dollars for less land and that isn't even very much for that area. The only downside of this is a crappy road. I can deal with the road.

 

And I don't mean to imply that the place I want to buy is anywhere close to $1.86 million dollars. It isn't and I have no idea what that place looks like. That is way out of my price range. The property we're looking at doesn't even have a house on it. It's much cheaper.

 

Several years ago I applied to a position in California near San Francisco. The wages were much higher than I was earning for the same position. They flew me out for the interview and put me up in a hotel. I walked around the area, bought a newspaper and could not help but see the gas prices as we drove to the hotel. Looking through the classifieds at apartments I realized that living there would cost so much more that I would likely be living at a lower standard of living even though I would be earning so much more. Needless to say I stayed put.

 

Properties that run in the millions tend to have very uppity neighbors owning them... If you don't meet "their standards" they don't want you there. Even if your property may come much cheaper than that they would expect someone that buys it to build a place on it that costs millions...

I was looking at a few places with acreage and an old farm house before I saw this place. When I zoomed out on the maps and saw what was developing in the area I knew the intention was for the old house to be razed and a hew $$$ mansion was to be built. Even if that old house could have been saved, living amongst those neighbors would have been hell...

 

moored. right by the airport and military bases, so lots of tourists, cruiseships, tourboats, military ships, warplanes, warships, helicoptors.... noise!

 

Time and time again. Left cars, other possessions, jobs, people and went for it. Usually from 5 to 10 years(at the outside)in one place --the itch would begin----and I needed gone. I ocasionally think about some of the good folks I have left here and there--- never to be seen again. I just don't keep in touch with people much at all. Most of the time, I never knew what I would find when I went, but I always seemed to come out fine and create a place for myself wherever. At my age I would probably go again---if something really interesting came up.

Since my ladyfriend died-- I really have no ties anywhere that would keep me from taking off---except for my kids. THEM, I would keep in touch with.

 

Fuck 'em! I'd put up a tent and a laundry line just to piss them off.

But really...the only neighbors are monks. No idea why their property is worth that much. Maybe they built an awesome monastery. I talked to a real estate agent today who confirmed that there are no mansions, rich people, etc in that area. Want to live in a rural, quiet area? This is a good place for it.

We also briefly discussed our business plan (because it calls for commercial space) and she thought it was an excellent idea that would do very well there. But of course she wouldn't tell me if she thought otherwise because she wants to sell me some real estate.

 

The kids are definitely a topic on my mind. Our youngest still lives at home so obviously she'd be going with us. Our two eldest don't live at home anymore. One is leaving for Colorado for college pretty soon. The other is planning on enlisting in the Marine Corp as soon as he is able to (recently had a pretty major surgery) but I'd love it if he changed his mind and decided to come with us.

I know what you mean about leaving stuff though. When I moved a lot as a kid I regularly had to leave things behind. I didn't really get very emotionally invested in friendships because I knew that in 6 months or a year or maybe 2 weeks....we would be gone and I'd never see them again. But I had friends.

 

yeah, nothing like that here. i've moved somewhat suddenly a few times, but it was always because i got a job elsewhere, and it was never more than a couple hundred miles away. not like picking up and moving cross country and hoping to make a living somehow.

 

Been there, done that.

 

I think I'm mostly on the bus but times like right now...I'm having a tough time with it. I just lit a fire out back for some plans with friends tonight. It will be a pretty impressive group of musicians but nobody is coming just because so-and-so will be there (I could probably get 150 non-musician people here in an hour if we wanted everyone to know). Everyone is just coming to hang out. There might only be a single acoustic guitar out there...maybe not even that. I have a hard time thinking about not being a part of this group anymore. I've shared so many stages with these people and had so many intimate, close experiences (non-sexual...you pervs!) It's such an important part of my life that I really question whether I can let it go. I wish I had the courage that my son has. He's scheduled to go on national tour later this year (maybe I already mentioned that somewhere) and he and his band have been looking for his replacement because he'd rather go to college.

Anyway, tonight will be fun but part of me will be wondering what life will be like without my friends.

 

And maybe I couldn't get 150 people here in an hour. I was just throwing a number out there but if people thought all these guys might play...there would be a lot of people showing up for the party.

 

I'd just go life is short and all about new sensations and experiences.

 

Yes - to China, Australia and South Korea, over the years. It didn't always work out...but I always learned something from the experience.