Thinking About Moving?

Jules

Jules

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Do you ever think about moving? It’s not so easy with a life full of possessions. Logistics. Costs.

We chose this city when we retired and overall it’s a very pleasant location. Our house is small, though maintenance never goes away. Stores are nearby. We have a family doctor and that’s significant. Specialists require travel. My husband’s family are several hours away so we don’t have that infrastructure. He has a degenerative disease and coping may become difficult.

Sometimes I consider moving. He doesn’t want the stress of a move and neither of us are enamoured with a big, expensive city.

Do you have reasons that make you consider moving to a different home or even a different city? Maybe you just want to experience someplace different.
 
I am constantly thinking about moving. Sometimes close by but to a smaller house. I have also looked at other cities with a lower cost of living. Our property taxes are through the roof due to the higher prices of real estate in Dallas. We will only reap the rewards of higher real estate prices if we sell, but we love where we live and I haven't a found somewhere else that I would want to live.

I am actually hoping the housing bubble bursts at some point so we will see lower property taxes. In the interim, I have actually been looking at places like Mexico, Equador and Portugal.
 
moving out of country, is difficult. it doesnt always work out. you have to go light and casual.
most people go somewhere else and stay about six months, return home and understand more
about what it takes to go and stay.

im always conjuring a move. ive run out of places to check easily, even long distance. im sort of
crashing and regrouping now, which covid years helped.
im almost content where i am now excepting every day i go outside i have to see the environmental
damage done 360 around me in all directions for great distances. and a near dry reservoir. thats a bitch.
 
Yes, all the time. I wanted to move when O?H was still here but he would have none of it...

I desperately want to move now he's not here.. this is a very expensive area, and to move somewhere less expensive would mean moving completely out of the area, and indeed the whole of the south or East of the country..

I can't even think where I would go now on my own tbh.. .. and whether I would be happy to go into an apartment.. could I give up my garden?.. not sure..:unsure:
 
I think about moving to Atlanta. I have family and friends there, I've visited there a lot, and I used to live there. I love it there. I sure don't want to move to a place in which I don't know anyone. I've known my friends in Atlanta for decades.

The one thing stopping me is that I would likely have to live in an apartment. I lived with my daughter for a few months a couple of years ago and I hated being in an apartment. I felt like a trapped animal. I have to be able to go outside and be by myself, with my dog.

Also, it is difficult to find an apartment that will take a 60 lb. dog, and he is one who barks a lot, being a terrier. It didn't used to matter since we lived in the country. But it would matter if we lived in an apartment.

My original plan was to buy a house there. But that is off the table, and so is moving for the foreseeable future.

I'm not particularly unhappy where I am. I like the house I live in, and for now, the area will continue to be just fine. I'm content, and I don't dwell on the aspects of living in Atlanta that would make me feel more excited about being alive.

I like to read blogs about what it is like to live in another country. It's fun for me, but I think at this point, that's not in the cards. I was disappointed to find out that since I was born to a German mother (instead of father) in the postwar years, even though I was born in Germany, that I cannot shortcut moving there. This is probably a good thing in my case, because I would haunt the bakeries.
 
Pepper said:
I don't think about it because RATS! I can't do it. My monthly maintenance was less than $700. this month so I just can't leave this cheap paradise.
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can you explain to a Non 'Merican what you mean by Monthly Maintenance?

Here in the UK.. Monthly maintenance on a property would be the upkeep of the building and surrounds... so £700 would be a huge payment...
 
I live in a coop, so rent is called maintenance. Indicates I own the apartment. That's my sum total, includes heat, gas, electricity. In 3 summer months there is a small increase per air conditioner. It's dollars, not pounds dear lady. I have 2 bedrooms, seems square footage is just under 1000; safe, clean neighborhood near shopping & all transportation. Near the beach. Etc.

Ps
Hate it here! However, I deliberately forget that!

Pps
If I rented this dump it would definitely be around $2500 per month.
 
Pepper said:
I live in a coop, so rent is called maintenance. Indicates I own the apartment. That's my sum total, includes heat, gas, electricity. In 3 summer months there is a small increase per air conditioner. It's dollars, not pounds dear lady. I have 2 bedrooms, seems square footage is just under 1000; safe, clean neighborhood near shopping & all transportation. Near the beach. Etc.

Ps
Hate it here! However, I deliberately forget that!
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Oh NO...you hate it..:(. wanna be my roomie ?...:ROFLMAO:
 
dseag2 said:
I am constantly thinking about moving. Sometimes close by but to a smaller house. I have also looked at other cities with a lower cost of living. Our property taxes are through the roof due to the higher prices of real estate in Dallas. We will only reap the rewards of higher real estate prices if we sell, but we love where we live and I haven't a found somewhere else that I would want to live.

I am actually hoping the housing bubble bursts at some point so we will see lower property taxes. In the interim, I have actually been looking at places like Mexico, Equador and Portugal.
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But your taxes are "frozen" aren't they...assuming you are 65 or over? Ours are frozen at half of the valuation of our home and land.
 
We built this house we are in now after our home was burned beyond repair and I am ready to move now, but my wife isn't. There wasn't nothing to move the last time, but we have moved previously and used a company that comes in and does all the packing and moving. My wife was at the new residence when the movers arrived and she tells them where to put the furniture and boxes when they arrive at the new residence. Yes, it's expensive, but it removes all the stress from packing and getting people to help pack and unpack and put the stuff away.

That was another good thing about the last time we used movers. They unpacked the boxes, cleaned everything and then put it away where the wife wanted it. Sure made my life easier. I was working and when I came home from a 2-day trip, everything was done. But, if you think you may want to go that way, please get prices first. It's expensive, but like I said earlier, all the stress and work is done for you. The movers come in the day before the move and pack everything. (Suggestion: Be sure you inventory everything. Things seem to disappear sometimes.) Then, the next day, the moving van shows up and they move everything. When they get to the new residence, the furniture gets put away, but the boxes get unpacked, cleaned and put away the next day.
 
I was looking to move twice. Once was decades ago due to the very noisy neighbor up over me, but comparing rents to what I pay as an owner here made me reconsider. She and her children eventually moved out, thank goodness because the board did nothing to help my situation. The next time was a few years ago. I was going to move and let my Honorary Daughter (HD...son's ex) and my grandchildren move in here because what she would have paid was much more manageable for her. She was often sick, going to the hospital while still trying her best to hold down a job. I even almost bought her an apartment here when one of my neighbors was selling...but he flipped the switch on the terms and price so HD told me not to buy it. She and her children needed a three bedroom anyway.

Currently, our two bedroom units are only about 24 - 29% of what a comparable two bedroom garden apartment in the area and the next county would cost. Another great thing is we have a walk score of 98%, this area has great public transportation and Ubers or Lyfts are available for rides within a couple of minutes. So no, I'm no longer looking to move. When I want a change I go to my "second home", my timeshare in Atlantic City. My son had been talking about moving south and if he ever did it, I wonder if I'd want to move near him (or in with him) once I got older. A few of my neighbors have done that when their children moved away, but they weren't that old yet. If I'll ever move remains to be seen.

I understand your husband's trepidation about moving. I hate even the thought of having to shlep all this stuff to another place. Not wanting to move to a big city is also understandable. Rents are just ridiculous now.
 
No, I am not thinking about moving. I live in an apartment that is set up for disabled and everything about it makes life much easier for me. It is centrally located downtown in a small city. My bills are low and I know my area. My son lives about 2 blocks away and I see him almost daily. I am happy where I am.
 
I only seriously considered moving one time, after my husband died, even found a nice house in town and a nice neighborhood but when all was said and done, it was not a good financial move, but I am happy here, I've worked long and hard to make this a comfortable home and I am happy here.
 
WheatenLover said:
I would haunt the bakeries.
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I hear that! I never could just pass by a Konditerei. Occasionally I'd just look at the display in the window. Usually I'd waltz right in and indulge and accompanied my choice(s) with German coffee. Stretch jeans hadn't been invented yet, more's the pity. On one 3-week visit I gained almost 30 lbs.
 
My daughter moved house just about a month ago. She lives in a beautiful village in the countryside but within an easy drive of Cambridge and Peterborough..the houses in the village are high but not as high as here.. the further North you go in the UK ( albeit she's in the East but north of London and the south) the cheaper the property prices..

She bought a 2 bed bungalow , one bath, .. with a tiny postage stamp of a garden, just enough room for a small shed, and a small table and chairs... No driveway ( which she's having put in next week), and no garage .. the house needed renovating badly having had elderly owners for the last few decades, so right now the builders are in pulling out the kitchen and getting ready to refit a new one, and the bathroom had the same treatment last week.. . She also had to have painters in to strip the walls and re-plaster in the hall, and had the loft boarded out and fitted with lighting
Given all of that ...she had to pay £200,000 for the house and there was 15 other people trying to outbid her.. ..so with the added cost of the renovations she will have paid the better part of £250,000 ( approx $308,000 US dollars )

On the day she moved from the rental she had been living in for almost a year after returning from overseas.. she had to pay £600 each trip ( 2 trips).. 7 tonne truck... and she only moved 150 yards

..and bear in mind this is in a much more affordable area than here in the South.., so properties and even the cost of moving is through the roof..
 
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katlupe said:
No, I am not thinking about moving. I live in an apartment that is set up for disabled and everything about it makes life much easier for me. It is centrally located downtown in a small city. My bills are low and I know my area. My son lives about 2 blocks away and I see him almost daily. I am happy where I am.
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yes , you're lucky Kat, you seem to have found your ideal home
 
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