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Been there, done that. I picked up and moved halfway across the country for a change of pace. The next adventure on the agenda is to join the Peace Corp at some point and serve in either the Pacific Rim or Latin America.
That is awesome. If I didn't have kids and a spouse I'd go into the Peace Corp.
One of my well traveled old friends says there is no geographic cure. He believes if you are unhappy inside here you'll be unhappy inside there.
I agree to a certain extent. But I think life changes and evolves. What was important at 30, is less so at 40 and maybe irrelevant at 50.
I was a military brat so we constantly moved and in many ways it was good. I think I have a better grounding and realistic view of the world compared to others I know that never travel outside of the county they live in. So if you are a parent it is probably not a bad idea for the occasional move to another place. Meet new people, new environment, new things, new climate, so on. It's good for the kids to learn how to adapt.
In life there are dreamers, doers and complainers. I'm a doer but I need to doodle and dream a bit, learn about it then do it. I'm not a bungee jumper doer. I think things through and then I execute. I actually have a little book of different things I want to do in my life and I keep working away at them bit by bit. I have personal and professional goals and a few material good goals.
As an example, my next personal goal outside of my career or owning something is to drive across the Nullabor plain in Australia from Perth to Adelaide and back again. I started researching it last year and am now looking at what I want to see in Western Australia. I'll sketch out a rough guide of things to see and do. It will probably be in 2010 when I do this trip.
Right before I hit 30 I was on a long trip to New Zealand and I had an epiphany that life was short and I needed to make the best of everyday. I realized much of my 20's in one sense had been wasted listening to other people, doing what i thought other people thought I should be doing, etc. I learned a lot though and it made me a better person but I didn't want to go through the next decade with regrets. And I haven't. I've really done quite well so far.
If you are not happy, figure out why, decide what to do about it and then execute and make it happen.
I'm not going to be sitting there at 65 like my friend is wondering where I pissed my life away to.
I hope you've read Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country
I am not unhappy...actually, I am very happy...my husband and I just want to make sure we have done the things in life we have dreamed of...and some of these things we want to have the children join us and experience while they are young...
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Originally Posted by wanneroo
One of my well traveled old friends says there is no geographic cure. He believes if you are unhappy inside here you'll be unhappy inside there.
I agree to a certain extent. But I think life changes and evolves. What was important at 30, is less so at 40 and maybe irrelevant at 50.
I was a military brat so we constantly moved and in many ways it was good. I think I have a better grounding and realistic view of the world compared to others I know that never travel outside of the county they live in. So if you are a parent it is probably not a bad idea for the occasional move to another place. Meet new people, new environment, new things, new climate, so on. It's good for the kids to learn how to adapt.
In life there are dreamers, doers and complainers. I'm a doer but I need to doodle and dream a bit, learn about it then do it. I'm not a bungee jumper doer. I think things through and then I execute. I actually have a little book of different things I want to do in my life and I keep working away at them bit by bit. I have personal and professional goals and a few material good goals.
As an example, my next personal goal outside of my career or owning something is to drive across the Nullabor plain in Australia from Perth to Adelaide and back again. I started researching it last year and am now looking at what I want to see in Western Australia. I'll sketch out a rough guide of things to see and do. It will probably be in 2010 when I do this trip.
Right before I hit 30 I was on a long trip to New Zealand and I had an epiphany that life was short and I needed to make the best of everyday. I realized much of my 20's in one sense had been wasted listening to other people, doing what i thought other people thought I should be doing, etc. I learned a lot though and it made me a better person but I didn't want to go through the next decade with regrets. And I haven't. I've really done quite well so far.
If you are not happy, figure out why, decide what to do about it and then execute and make it happen.
I'm not going to be sitting there at 65 like my friend is wondering where I pissed my life away to.
I am not unhappy...actually, I am very happy...my husband and I just want to make sure we have done the things in life we have dreamed of...and some of these things we want to have the children join us and experience while they are young...
We have the same viewpoint. If we find a nice spot, I'll let you know. Maybe we can be neighbors someday.
I have friends who hit the road for a year or two, then came back to their sticks & bricks home, but we plan to go whole hog.
That always seems to be the case. I believe from what I have learned it is good to have a home base and a grounding to something. Essentially for 10 years I've lived in furnished apartments and I'm over it. Can't wait when I move into a small home. I love to travel BUT I'M NOT MOVING MY STUFF ANYMORE.
It's actually going to be easier for me to travel knowing I have a proper home to come back to. A proper desk, a desktop computer, a place for my files, a place to read, relax, a garage for my car, etc. before my next work trip or personal trip.
My 65 year old friend I mentioned above lives like a highwayman almost. Very interesting guy, but I see the instability in his mind because he never really has a place to go back to and a place that is his own sanctuary.
I suspect after a year or two on the road you'll be ready to "come home".
I hope you've read Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country
Oh yeah read that when it came out. What was funny was one of my trips to Australia my first experience with Canberra was actually exactly the same down to the travel center and staying in the exact same hotel and having the exact same reaction to the place. And I didn't plan it out that way it just happened.
Oh yeah read that when it came out. What was funny was one of my trips to Australia my first experience with Canberra was actually exactly the same down to the travel center and staying in the exact same hotel and having the exact same reaction to the place. And I didn't plan it out that way it just happened.
I've just finished it for the second time - I enjoyed it even more the second time around Have your read his A Walk in the Woods about the AT? Gosh, he can paint a picture and make you laugh at the same time so well
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