So I'm not sure if it's because I moved alot growing up or maybe just a midlife crisis but I would like to just move somewhere else. Family and friends would be missed but I would make more friends and could always visit family.

Maybe just sell off all of the materials possessions, buy a motorcycle and just start all over again in another place. Not running but just wanting to live more.

People always say "there" is no better than "here" and blah, blah, blah but I know some people have to feel like just picking up and moving, are you one?

Why do you think that is? Maybe a gypsie gene or just the need for change?

i've done it. it cured what ailed me.

I'm working on moving from Amsterdam to Munich, Germany.....got to find myself a job over there first.....need to get out of here!

I wish you all the best but I am not going to answer this one


you're coming a bit too close to my own situation now

if i could move away right now i'd do it. it no good staying in one place too long.

Slave2daGroove said:

Are you a very spiritual person?

I find that after being in one place to long, I have to get up and go ..it's like a calling, ya know?

So, I get up and go. Hop a plane somewhere. Then when it's time to come home, I enjoy for a while, until that urge to get comes along, again.

As far as moving, to "get away" from something, if thats the case, it will follow where'ever you go.
Remember what Scarlet said "there's always tomorrow" ..

I wanted to move away from here all my life...

Cheek said:

if you really feel that way you should try it. you can always move back, and it's better to try something and find out you don't like it than it is to sit around wondering what things would be like if you made the move.

I think i'm about ready to stay settled where I am now. I have lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Maryland, Virginia, Pennslyvania, Tennessee and I have visited many many states.. Almost every state in the USA. ..


Think I will stay in this home and keep on with the visiting.

Montreal or London by 2010, if the Good Lord say the same...

Yeah I know the feeling, but you have to watch it out with it.

Ask yourself if you REALLY want to leave and why that is.
Ask yourself if there are reasons for staying too.
Ask yourself if you would want to be moving all your life.

Then if you do go, be prepared that you want to come back some day, or move even further, and be prepared that when you do come back things will not be to your liking. You will have "moved on", so to speak, but those you left behind will appear to you that they did not.

Think about it thouroughly and let your intuition make the decision.

if you're moving TOWARD something, even if you don't know what it is, then cool.

if you're moving to RUN AWAY FROM something, then you should stick around and confront it if you're able, because chances are no matter where you go, what you're running from will catch up with you.

Slave2daGroove said:

I think about it quite a bit lately. Wanna come with?

I've considered it many times. I only actually ever DID it once, and it only lasted 2 1/2 months and I came back home. I have always wanted to live in another country and there are many cities in the US I'd love to stay in for a while. But I think I will always end up back in Minneapolis. I do truly love it here.

applekisses said:

As long as you have a motorcycle and limited material possessions. I almost want to be like Kung Fu. Whatcha think about that?

Slave2daGroove said:

Well, grasshopper, I don't have a motorcycle, but the limited material possessions is right where I am...most of my stuff was burned up, as you know.

I'm not sure what you mean by "away"...but the idea of starting over somewhere new always has appeal.. ..Now if moving 3 hours away can be considered "away", then I definitely qualify... ...If "away" means to another state or country...I've had serious thoughts about that as well.

TheCatWoman said:

I'm not running and I do consider myself a spiritual person. A "calling", maybe? I don't know. It's like I've got a great life and I've worked hard to establish it but I'm feeling like I'm just working for material possessions. Yeah, I could get married and have kids (once I start dating again, lol) but then I'm responsible for more people and their stuff. I just think there's got to be more than this. I guess it's the need to make the world a better place rather than selfish materialism and mundane tasks.

I look at some people who barely get by and don't work as hard as I do but they seem to be happier. Again, like I could walk away from years of hard work and the rewards that come with it just to do something that was spiritually more rewarding. I've volunteered at shelters and helped at soup kitchens, I've even planted trees in bad neighborhoods that needed trees but that's not enough.

I'm just confused and feel like I'm at a crossroads in life.
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Byron said:

moving away in my eyes is crossing the ocean! leave all the shit behind you and start all over again!



hmm hormons? i'll log off now

Abrazo said:

I really appreciate your posts Abrazo and this one is no exception. I think spending some time to really think about this is what I need.

It's like a need to help people combined with the want to not be what everyone else does (starting a family and taking roots) and to experience new places by living in them (as opposed to just visiting).

Thanks for your wise words.

AGCM said:

You are feeling me here.

Slave2daGroove said:

thx!!

if it weren't for family and friends i'd be gone
tomorrow and never even think about coming back.

applekisses said:

Sorry, I didn't mean to point THAT out. I think I just need to put together some kind of realistic thoughts on this or a plan or something. Thanks for being the first person to want to come with.

Hell yes! I wish I could move to my own private island away from everyone! But that's never going to happen so I'm currently trying to move closer to Boston.

been there, done that. couldn't be happier.

AGCM said:

Notice the laughing emoticon which signifies I already know that three hours away is not really much...

Yer lucky I like you so much...lol

IstenSzek2 said:

nvm edit




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Slave2daGroove said:

Oh, I didn't take offense to anything it's no problem at all...no need to apologize.
And you're welcome
I say if we skip town we do it after the Super Bowl, though Gotta go to the Winter Blast!