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There are all kinds of reasons why people move to a new city, town or place, whether voluntary or involuntary. Or sometimes its voluntary but in their best interests. Some people travel and research and develop a strong desire to move to a place and make it happen if they can. Others are forced into dire circumstances and have little choice but to live or move to/in a certain place.
So, what about you? Did you willingly (out of desire) choose to live in the place you currently live in? Or did you sort of "end up" there due to life circumstances (i.e. employment, family, health, love)?
For me, I ended up in Jacksonville, FL since three years ago after being long term unemployed in CT and was desperate to find a job anywhere in the country. So I finally got a good job offer in Jacksonville and made the move.
I always knew I would escape Texas. I'd always wanted to live on the east coast, Seattle and southern California. Looks like I'll make all three come true soon. There were a couple of lovely pit stops as well in Denver and Greenville.
I was always planning on getting out of Chicago at some point. After I finished college, I had nothing going for me, a dead-end job paying just a tick over minimum wage, and most of my friends had moved on --- so when I happened to see an ad for a coding bootcamp in the DC area, I jumped at the chance to leave that existence behind. I got placed with a contracting firm afterward, so now I move wherever the firm wants me to move. It's been pretty great.
I don't really want to stay in Seattle forever. I'm only in my mid-20s, I figure I have at least a few adventuring years left. But it's a really cool part of the country and I've had a blast here and made some great friends, some of whom I hope to keep talking to for years to come.
When I needed to move, I chose a region, then narrowed it down to four cities. I went to A and checked it out. Then drove three hours to B, didn't like it, drove back to A and signed the lease. Still love it after ten years. Haven't seen C or D to this day.
Spent months researching, then chose a specific area in the southern Appalachians and asked to be transferred there. The exact location was the result of chance, a combination of available open positions in the area combined with affordable, acceptable (to me) housing. I've been here for ten years and still love it.
I just hate how where I live depends on job availability in my career field, which is very niche and very hard to change. I don't hate where I live now, but if I could live somewhere else, I probably would.
But now I'm 36 years old and have only been with my current employer for 3 years and bought a house last year. So now I'm pretty settled. Still single though (and gay).
Location: Miami (prev. NY, Atlanta, SF, OC and San Diego)
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I have been fortunate to live where I’ve always wanted to throughout my life, other than a minor exception in which I had to settle for Orange County instead of LA by 1 employer, following a promotion relocation from San Francisco.
My last 2 moves (San Diego and currently Miami) were requested by me and was aided by the fact I had been with the same company for a long time with trust built up and I worked out of a home based office.
I never had any desire to move up and work out of company HQ’s in Dallas and some of my friends in other fields (one dentist friend in particular) were a bit envious of me knowing they couldn’t just pack up, move to another city, and bring their clients or patients with them. I also traveled a fair amount on business and had a chance to visit Miami 15 times over a 3 year period, including a month long stay, before deciding to move here (with my job, before recently retiring)—so it was a well planned, not spontaneous, move. No regrets after 3.5 years.
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Ended up here. Closer to relatives in Philly, and the job market in my field is more numerous than Pitt(supply chain) with a slightly lower cost of living. But I have no desire to stay in city limits long term.
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