How come you don't move?

[mom2boys]

I'd love to move to FL or at least as far south as SC. However are boys are in a great school system & have a nice set of friends - we just moved them out of private school a year ago & don't want to disrupt them again. They love their new school. But come 2013 DH will have a hard time keeping me here!

 

[disykat]

No reason to move - we love it here! We were considering a move for dh's work. When it came right down to it, there wasn't enough enticement to pull us away from what we have here.

We don't live near family and can't due to dh's work (whew!). The only reason we would move would be job related.

 

[FINFAN]

Marketability for DH career is what 's keeping us trapped here. He is a project manager-heavy manufacturing experience/automotive/mechanical engineering. Now if he were aeronautical or HVAC or civil or structural or electrical... ...ANY of those...we would sell the house outright and head to Fl., health insurance would kill us each month, but we have seriously contemplated it. However, after 3 years and numerous trips down to apply etc., we just have not had luck with work down there...YET! We are constantly trying tho....Southeast is our goal! However, during our search we have learned that fl REALLY wants LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY for a lot of their professional positions. DH is currently working w/4 recruiters, and they all laugh when he tells them his location preference, and ask if he minds serving drinks in the local Tiki hut lounge. We may just do that...we'd like it, but the kids might wonder where we are each night. Now offers in the COLD great lakes region...those he gets..keep your fingers crossed for a opportunity for us in Cincinnati...at least it is southeast of Chicago...and lot's of Disers there too!

 

[katerkat]

Wow, I find this thread fascinating! Married to DH, well, we've moved three times since we got married, and Move #4 is only 2.5 months away. I've hated to be away from my mom and sisters, but I go home as often as I can. We talk on cell phones with free minutes and "talk" online every day. I'm sure it'll be harder once we have kids.
However, I find it exciting to live in so many places. I've always wanted to live by the beach, in the mountains, overseas... Now I can! Of course, I also get to live in swampy Mississippi and flat/windy Oklahoma, but you take the good with the bad in the military! DH told me our assignment in Washington State will be three years - that's a LONG time!

 

[catsrule]

keep your fingers crossed for a opportunity for us in Cincinnati...at least it is southeast of Chicago...and lot's of Disers there too!

Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

 

[danacara]

I'm in another one of those fields that exists in three places in the US - NY/NJ, Chicago, and Los Angeles. So, for now, I'm restricted until I make a career change or go back to school. I like NY/NJ, though, and I think to one day have a nice home here and a condo in Florida would be just about perfect.

 

[Kitty 34]

My Dh's job and the fact that the boys are still in school or college keep us from moving to Florida right now.

 

[FINFAN]

Awwww Catsrule...We are on pins and needles...I will keep you posted for sure!

Pam

 

[sandbar]

Leave 'beautiful Ohio' with the frigid temperatures and snow? Gasp! Who would even consider such a thing!........ME!

But, unfortunately my kids are in college, my mother-in-law is in the nursing home with Alzheimer's and my mom still lives here. I can still dream of living in a warmer place. Maybe someday.....

 

[Sonya]

Sounds like some of you are really happy where you are! Lucky you!
DH and I aren't married to our jobs, we both feel that we could change at any time. I love our new house and neighborhood, but I don't like KC all that much. I feel like we are studk out in the middle of nowhere. There are no really good day trips here!

 

[Mari annie]

We love FL, but the wages are too low and DH doesn't want to give up his great job, (not at the present time) to end up working another job, he works enough!
In a few years we'd like to buy a winter home their and be snow birds and go from Dec-May!
Besides my parents live on the other side of town and we are very close to them!
We moved away before and our phone bills were huge and we ended up visiting more often, so we found our niche for now and enjoying!

We do go to FL as often as we can, FL is beautiful and has LOTS to offer!

 

[helenabear]

Pretty simple, my dad & my husband. If either of them (preferably both) would agree to move south, I'd be there in a heart beat!

 

[Towncrier]

As long as family and The Yankee Peddler Festival remain in NE Ohio, we will remain where we are. I was once offered a job in Northern California (coincidently for a company that now owns the place that I work for here in Ohio), but I couldn't convince my wife that a move west would be good for us. She talks about retiring to Florida, but I'll believe that when it happens.

I did live in Southern California for a couple years in the early 80's, but I eventually returned to Ohio. Must be something in the water.

 

[ORD2KOA]

We finally did in 1999.

The "final straw" was one winter when we couldn't get out of the house because of drifted snow. When my d/h finally got the aluminum storm door open, the wind mangled it.

We suffered through one more Chicago winter and then got the heck outta there.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

Sonya, my sister Sonja used to live in KC and I loved to visit. The Plaza area with all of the fountains is just beautiful. I always thought it would be great to live in KC.

We probably will move but it will be into another house in our same neighborhood. A lot of families have done the same thing. Some have even moved out of town or out of state and moved back because of the neighborhood. We just love our neighborhood. It has young couples, families with children and retired families. It is a great cross section of society.

We play Bunco with other couples, have a pool, golf course and tennis courts within walking distance. We're active in our church and community and it just feels like home. A lot of our family only lives 30 miles away.

Lori

 

[aprilgail2]

Originally posted by DukeStreetKing
What's wrong the schools in Florida?

Have you researched the curriculum and the quality of the teachers and found them to be below your standards or are you just going on old pretenses and stereotypes?

I've never even checked out schools in Florida but by the time I retire she will be in 9th grade and I would not consider moving her out of a school she has known here and her friends for one there. I have heard from people that have moved from Ft Lauderdale to here though with school age kids that when they registered them here they were behind the rest of the class in what they were learning though. I am hoping she chooses to go away to college than I will move as soon as she goes and she can fly "home" to Florida during breaks.

 

[GailT]

I have one tie here in Boston, my dad is 86 so i stay put. He knows eventualy I will move to the Carolinas but for now I am super glued to MA.

 

[wdwpluto]

We live in NJ. We both work in magazine publishing and NYC is where the jobs are. Plus my family is in NJ and dh's family is in Staten Island. So this is where we'll stay...for now.

 

[KarenB]

I often say I would love to move back to Cape Cod. Much of my husband's family is there, that is where our children were born, and I just loved living there. The high price on real estate is what drove us away.

Although I say I would love to move back, DH has a decent paying job, I went to college at the age of 38 and landed my first teaching job this year, our DSs are in middle school and high school, we own a house, we get to take vacations (many of them to WDW!)......I often look around and think that life is good.


......now, if we only had the ocean near by it wold be just about perfect.


KarenB

 

[snoopy]

This has been such an interesting thread to read.

We stay in D.C. for our jobs, particulalry DH's who works for the government.

I also know that D.C. is one of the better places to live in the country, and its consistently rated in the top 5 best places to live. I could do without winters and the horrendous rush hour traffic, other than that, I like this area pretty well. I grew up within 40 miles of where I live now, and have the benefit of most of my siblings and old friends still in the area. My kids have grown up with their cousins. We like the schools where we live. I'd say on a scale from 1-10 I would rate my satisfaction with where I live an 8. And I realize that Utopia may be a 10, but chances of finding Utopia are pretty slim.