I am wondering some thoughts on this. (US)
We’ve lived in this house for 6 years. It’s a great place, but we always figured we’d probably move again at some point. Now, we have a decent amount of stuff (mostly due to my 1000’s of hobbies, we like to do a lot of shit because life should be fun) so I really hate moving.
My thought is-hey, if we end up moving, lets just move really far away. Most of our families will be gone in a few years and there’s not really a reason to stay here. I could probably give up a lot of my large items if it meant moving to a really interesting new country (thinking one of the Nordic countries, my grandparents were from there). Still, it would probably be 6 years before we would actually move.
Just wondering how crazy this really is. I think my SO feels like it’s a joke when I bring it up.
If your SO thinks it’s a joke, then I think the very first thing you need to do is consider whether you’re 100% serious about it or not. And then you need to discuss it with them as a serious topic, so they know you’re not kidding. And then take it from there based on whatever they say, bearing in mind that they may be 100% against it.
Also agree with the comment about potentially having to move back closer to family in future, if health situations deteriorate.
None of which is to say don’t do it. But it’s a major life change, so lots to consider.
Yeah exactly. Neither of us plan anything more than a year out ever, because you can die of cancer in the next month so planning is really worthless, other than saving financially.
The good part is they dont have friends so that’s not a big deal. And all my friends have their own families so they dont care about us anymore either.
I suppose its not worth doing unless we did it right now. In 10 years everyone will be trying to escape here even more.
All I care about is what stuff I can bring with me, really. We have jobs that enable us to work anywhere and that aren’t really replaceable by technology so we have the ability there.