could you move very far away for a job or for the right person?

i'm talking about to another country or even continent from where you live now?

NEVER!

Shit, I'd move far away just for kicks.

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Fuck yes, have done before. Would do again.

TheVoid said:

Shit, I'd move far away just for kicks.

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You do.

I moved 1,306 miles to be with the love of my life, according to Google Maps.

I left the city I'd lived in since I was born, a huge, close-knit family, lots of friends, beloved shops, museums and countless other little places I'd grown attached to. I was very involved in community organizing. I had a well-paying job teaching kids that were more like my family than my students.

Everyone acted completely shocked and didn't believe I was really leaving.

It was the best decision I've ever made.

PunkMistress said:

TheVoid said:

Shit, I'd move far away just for kicks.

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You do.

I moved 1,306 miles to be with the love of my life, according to Google Maps.

I left the city I'd lived in since I was born, a huge, close-knit family, lots of friends, beloved shops, museums and countless other little places I'd grown attached to. I was very involved in community organizing. I had a well-paying job teaching kids that were more like my family than my students.

Everyone acted completely shocked and didn't believe I was really leaving.

It was the best decision I've ever made.

I was a military brat, so moving around was part of the program.

But, back when I was younger, I used to endure a relentless amount of teasing, so moving around allowed me to get a small break until the new kids at whatever new city realized I was an easy target again. .,....in some way, moving allowed me to 'escape' and experience new things.

I do have to say that of all the places I've moved around in, Tampa was the only one that I would say felt 'homish' to me. I could have grown old and died there--it's just a sweet little city. I'll defend it till my dying day.

TheVoid said:

PunkMistress said:

You do.

I moved 1,306 miles to be with the love of my life, according to Google Maps.

I left the city I'd lived in since I was born, a huge, close-knit family, lots of friends, beloved shops, museums and countless other little places I'd grown attached to. I was very involved in community organizing. I had a well-paying job teaching kids that were more like my family than my students.

Everyone acted completely shocked and didn't believe I was really leaving.

It was the best decision I've ever made.

I was a military brat, so moving around was part of the program.

But, back when I was younger, I used to endure a relentless amount of teasing, so moving around allowed me to get a small break until the new kids at whatever new city realized I was an easy target again. .,....in some way, moving allowed me to 'escape' and experience new things.

I do have to say that of all the places I've moved around in, Tampa was the only one that I would say felt 'homish' to me. I could have grown old and died there--it's just a sweet little city. I'll defend it till my dying day.

Aw, c'mere.

PunkMistress said:

TheVoid said:

Shit, I'd move far away just for kicks.

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You do.

I moved 1,306 miles to be with the love of my life, according to Google Maps.

I left the city I'd lived in since I was born, a huge, close-knit family, lots of friends, beloved shops, museums and countless other little places I'd grown attached to. I was very involved in community organizing. I had a well-paying job teaching kids that were more like my family than my students.

Everyone acted completely shocked and didn't believe I was really leaving.

It was the best decision I've ever made.

i'd ask if you had any moments of regret or loneliness in the beginning, but i've just had lunch and hearing about how great your life and marriage are (again) will make me

Work ...never

for a special someone ~ being my husband ... MAYBE

I REALLY LOVE where we live and the home we built by hand and the yrs of growing a family here

travel /visit sure

MOVE away and stay ...nadda

whistle said:

PunkMistress said:

OMG! I even love his farts!

i've just had lunch and hearing about how great your life and marriage are (again) will make me

Tell her, Whistle!

whistle said:

PunkMistress said:

You do.

I moved 1,306 miles to be with the love of my life, according to Google Maps.

I left the city I'd lived in since I was born, a huge, close-knit family, lots of friends, beloved shops, museums and countless other little places I'd grown attached to. I was very involved in community organizing. I had a well-paying job teaching kids that were more like my family than my students.

Everyone acted completely shocked and didn't believe I was really leaving.

It was the best decision I've ever made.

i'd ask if you had any moments of regret or loneliness in the beginning, but i've just had lunch and hearing about how great your life and marriage are (again) will make me

The first several months were hard.

I had crying spells, severe culture shock, and definitely moments of loneliness.

HamsterHuey said:

whistle said:

i've just had lunch and hearing about how great your life and marriage are (again) will make me

Tell her, Whistle!

Fuck all y'all!

I could complain about my genetic disease, constant joint pain, inability to exert myself without a serious asthma attack, always being broke and having to say "no" to our kids for the things they want, and bitter fights with family members if you'd like!

I choose to focus on the positive and make you all sick instead.

Ew, I hate complaining.

I moved just 200 miles, from Mass to Maine, but it is like an entirely different culture.

PunkMistress said:

HamsterHuey said:

Tell her, Whistle!

Fuck all y'all!

I could complain about my genetic disease, constant joint pain, inability to exert myself without a serious asthma attack, always being broke and having to say "no" to our kids for the things they want, and bitter fights with family members if you'd like!

I choose to focus on the positive and make you all sick instead.

Ew, I hate complaining.

oh wow, that's a revelation. i thought you and Chris were refugees from some perfect planet where they don't suffer from hangnails or diarrhoea or marital trouble like us humans.

PunkMistress said:

HamsterHuey said:

Tell her, Whistle!

Fuck all y'all!

I could complain about my genetic disease, constant joint pain, inability to exert myself without a serious asthma attack, always being broke and having to say "no" to our kids for the things they want, and bitter fights with family members if you'd like!

I choose to focus on the positive and make you all sick instead.

Ew, I hate complaining.

I REALLY have zero to "bitch complain " about in my relationship ...and that's 25 yrs in man

I can't even stand to be round my close friends when they go into BITCH mode bout their partner/life/marriage ... over mundane pissy shit

keep on keeping on sista

PunkMistress said:

HamsterHuey said:

Tell her, Whistle!

Fuck all y'all!

Shut up and post naked chest pics.

Of your husband.

(the best thing of my post did not transfer into your previous quote, damnit! That was the best part of it!)

Mach said:

PunkMistress said:

Fuck all y'all!

I could complain about my genetic disease, constant joint pain, inability to exert myself without a serious asthma attack, always being broke and having to say "no" to our kids for the things they want, and bitter fights with family members if you'd like!

I choose to focus on the positive and make you all sick instead.

Ew, I hate complaining.

I REALLY have zero to "bitch complain " about in my relationship ...and that's 25 yrs in man

I can't even stand to be round my close friends when they go into BITCH mode bout their partner/life/marriage ... over mundane pissy shit

keep on keeping on sista

have you always been that way, or were you complaining just like them at one point?

I didn't do it for love or work - but I did leave the country, all in all for 6 years. Two other countries and I just about managed to hunker down on the lip of another continent.

I didn't have a moment of homesickness for 5.5 years of that, but there came a time when I just wanted to be in London again - there were many reasons if I think about it, and they came together in some kind of queerly pre-ordained design.

Anyhow, I came home. No regrets about leaving or coming back.

I'd jump at the right opportunity, absolutely. It would depend on where and why, of course.

I have always wanted to find the right reason to leave for a while, but I think I'll always come back here. Minneapolis is my home.

I asked my wife just yesterday if she would consider moving to another country for a few years (maybe Canada, England, Ireland) while our country straightens its ass out (I'm not starting a political argument here). I would seriously consider it given the circumstances I'm in right now (no, I'm not on the lam), especially if I knew I had a job in the other country and it paid a good salary. As long as my wife and kids were with me, I'd go just about anywhere.

Poiple said:

I asked my wife just yesterday if she would consider moving to another country for a few years (maybe Canada, England, Ireland) while our country straightens its ass out (I'm not starting a political argument here). I would seriously consider it given the circumstances I'm in right now (no, I'm not on the lam), especially if I knew I had a job in the other country and it paid a good salary. As long as my wife and kids were with me, I'd go just about anywhere.

My husband and I talk about this all the time.

whistle said:

PunkMistress said:

Fuck all y'all!

I could complain about my genetic disease, constant joint pain, inability to exert myself without a serious asthma attack, always being broke and having to say "no" to our kids for the things they want, and bitter fights with family members if you'd like!

I choose to focus on the positive and make you all sick instead.

Ew, I hate complaining.

oh wow, that's a revelation. i thought you and Chris were refugees from some perfect planet where they don't suffer from hangnails or diarrhoea or marital trouble like us humans.

whistle said:

Mach said:

I REALLY have zero to "bitch complain " about in my relationship ...and that's 25 yrs in man

I can't even stand to be round my close friends when they go into BITCH mode bout their partner/life/marriage ... over mundane pissy shit

keep on keeping on sista

have you always been that way, or were you complaining just like them at one point?

maybe at one point in 9th grade ... ok MAYBE 10th too (?)

Yeah no ...NOT in this 25 year realtionship

I was engaged prior and it was HORRIBLE ~ mentally and physically abusive ...so I KNOW what a shit relationship IS ...

HamsterHuey said:

PunkMistress said:

Fuck all y'all!

Shut up and post naked chest pics.

Of your husband.

(the best thing of my post did not transfer into your previous quote, damnit! That was the best part of it!)

What was the best part?

I've done it. . . lived aboard for more than a decade for a job.

whistle said:

could you move very far away for a job or for the right person?

i'm talking about to another country or even continent from where you live now?

"COULD" I ... Yes

Would I ... there is the maybe

Being that I'm a Special Ed teacher, the job opportunity would have to be phenomenal. It's hard enough to get a license in each US state you move to.

For a man... he'd have to be sooo incredibly fabulous, and be able to take care of me while I try to get a new career established.

Who am I kidding? No.

I moved 3,000 miles away from my home with absolutely no social structures in place. I sometimes regret it, but I have more now than I could have ever had if I not relocated.

I would move abroad if the right opportunity came up. I'd do it in a heartbeat. You only live once.

If there was an opportunity to keep my apartement and to visit back home once a year or so and if we had enought money somehow to buy something to eat and things like that I would totally move to the tropical rainforest in Trinidad for my bf and live with him without electricity and water. So that would be very far away from Vienna, about 26 hours at least. And of course a complety different culture and way of living.

Reel said:

I moved 3,000 miles away from my home with absolutely no social structures in place. I sometimes regret it, but I have more now than I could have ever had if I not relocated.

I would move abroad if the right opportunity came up. I'd do it in a heartbeat. You only live once.

Wow.

Whereabouts did you move to and from, if you don't mind my asking?