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Other... I fell in love with this place at age 10 but it took me 55 years to get here. Life is short. If you want to live in New Zealand or Umbria or Provence or the Virgin Islands then find a way to do it. If not now, then when? "Learning to deal" with the problems of a place, if there are no balancing or redeeming qualities, is a life sentence.
Other... I fell in love with this place at age 10 but it took me 55 years to get here. Life is short. If you want to live in New Zealand or Umbria or Provence or the Virgin Islands then find a way to do it. If not now, then when? "Learning to deal" with the problems of a place, if there are no balancing or redeeming qualities, is a life sentence.
Right on. I miss my family, and some things about Texas, but I always wanted something.....different. Then one day, I thought to myself, "if not now, when?" The sooner the better and now my only regret is I didn't do it sooner. I still miss a lot about Texas for sure.
Other... I fell in love with this place at age 10 but it took me 55 years to get here. Life is short. If you want to live in New Zealand or Umbria or Provence or the Virgin Islands then find a way to do it. If not now, then when? "Learning to deal" with the problems of a place, if there are no balancing or redeeming qualities, is a life sentence.
I am in Provence. I inherited a small farm outside of Avignon. ( dual citizenship ) I am sincerely thinking about making it my forever home in the not too distant future. I’ve been here many times as a child, but now I have much more appreciation for the beauty and pace of life in the French countryside, and close proximity to the French Riviera.
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Other: Lifestyle...relocated to Miami by choice from CA bringing my job with me before recently retiring early.
Body is acclimated to year round warm weather, oceanfront cities; vibrant, cosmopolitan and cultural urban city that is walkable; all 4 pro sports teams/leagues; good restaurant city; hub airport with direct/nonstop routes to my favorite vacation spots; good infrastructure; beautiful women; minimal homeless presence; clean/modern city....no state income tax is just a cherry on top.
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Job - we didn't know much about Greensboro but did some research when I got an interview here. Seemed like a decent fit (good size city, reasonable COL, plenty of things to do in the area), so I accepted the job offer when it came.
Fast forward 2 years - the job sucks (company fed me BS on some major things) and I'm looking for a new one, but we really like this city. We're open to other areas, but we're hoping I get an offer somewhere local.
Moved willingly for a job, but chose the specific location I reside because it's close to Atlanta and because of its growth *potential.*
It's an *OK* location. The weather is much nicer, the COL is low, it has mostly everything I *need* in terms of stores and the people are well-mannered enough. It's a small town that has turned into a small suburb and continues to be gradually built up (I wish it were growing *MUCH* faster).
That being said, I'm ready to go. Someone like me (Young, single, progressive, college-educated minority who's originally from a big city) isn't the right fit for this place.
It's unfortunate though, because I kind of like the job.
I moved here (to the greater metro area) because this is where my significant other lived and there was more work opportunities here.
We've stayed because of work opportunities and familiarity and we don't want to uproot our lives until we look at retiring.
We are in our current town (an exburb) because we found the right house at the right price in an okay location. We never thought we'd move to an uber-small town, but we've learned to "never say never".
We are definitely suburbanites who are used to having a larger variety of amenities available. The local restaurants are awful. We really don't get why a lot of locals love these places. (You can tell the natives from the transplants when the conversation turns this direction.) It was also surprising how big of a deal it was when our Tim Horton's got built a couple of years ago. (You'd think they were building a Walmart the way some people acted.)
There are parts of living here that we love - we've built a really good community here and we couldn't ask for better friends. However, we desire a more central location in an area that doesn't shut down at 11pm and there are just more options for date night and going out - that aren't bar food or pizza.
I like living in a blue collar area because people are very unpretentious, but we'd prefer a more central location.
First I came here for a job (temporarily for a 9-month contract), but then fell in love with the city and there's plenty of opportunity here for my career, so I made the permanent move after the contract was over.
My husband and I could literally live anywhere in the world where there's easy access to an international airport. We have both traveled extensively and lived and worked in various regions of the US and in several other countries.
We both have family connections to NE Texas but both our parents are deceased and we don't have any caregiving responsibilities, and our siblings are scattered.
We considered many other areas and visited other states with the specific goal to look closely at real estate, stats, weather, crime rates, etc. And also just whether or not we felt like we'd be happy living there.
After all this consideration for several years, and all the interesting travel as well, we moved 45 minutes from where we'd been living! LOL
I love me some NE Texas. But Texas is actually my second favorite state - my favorite state is Virginia. But overall, Texas was a better fit for both of us, so we went with it. No regrets.
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