Ever wish to move far away but never did?

old medic said:
We discussed about selling and moving away from here before I retired. Not to far, 40-50 miles away. I had spent 35 years working EMS in our small county and there's hardly a road that doesn't harbor a memory of someone's misfortune. I drive by roadside crosses every time I leave the house regardless of direction, in the 12 mile ride to town I pass 5 different multi-fatality spots. The memories will always be there, but seeing the spots can trigger them.

But we did end up moving.... 1.2 miles..... bought the house we rented from 85-94.
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Sometimes life does what it wants to do.
 

Still live in the house where I was born. As I type this I'm sitting in the same spot in the living room where my grandfather used to sit. We share the home with one of our daughters, her husband, and two grown grandkids. The rest of our family live within 90 miles of us, including grandkids and great grands.

I wouldn't choose to have it any other way and my wife shares my feelings. Only one grandson and his wife , live on the west coast .

A 10 -15 minute drive takes us to the shore at the other end of the City.

After retiring we used to spend 3 months in Florida (Jan - March) and a few months at a family cottage in Maine.
 
As a young woman, about 22, I always wanted to move to Spain or Buenos Aires. The culture and the scenery were just what I dreamed about. Then I met my Aussie husband and all that was put into the back of the filing cabinet. Now as I have grown so much older and a deceased husband, all those memories have come flooding back, but I'm now too old to travel by myself.
People say that I can always join a senior's group and travel but that sounds too complicated now. Oh well, I can always put up YouTube and log into those countries I longed to visit. Thank goodness I always encouraged my boys to travel, and they have been to so many different countries, and I do enjoy all the stories they have to tell.
 
The thread is about where you yearned and wish to move away, not where you've been nor. staying home.
So again, where did you WISH to MOVE and reside far from home, but never did.
All my life I wanted to move to Denver area,and thought of Florida and California.
Never did, too late now. Analyzed it and procrastinated.
 
I considered moving to the California coast when I was young but never did. I seriously considered relocating when I retired, even set money aside for a new home, but could never find the perfect place so here I still be.
 
I married young at 19, divorced at 23, so I stayed where my son was, in the same town we were both born in.
I've always lived within 100 miles of the same place.
Remarried, had some more kids. My family and hers were close, so we stayed even though the available jobs didn't pay very well.
I inherited the family farm, bought a small acreage down the road and 3 houses in town.
That being said, I've had my eye on a town in Washington state, a place called Sequim, it looks beautiful.
However, I have grandkids here now, houses to take care of and my twin brother and my daughter too,
I never really wanted to stay here, but here I'll stay.
 
I wished for years to move back to the city where I grew up, Hong Kong, but I never did. Managing the logistics of making a life for myself in America, the home of my parents, took up my time and energies. Now at my age, I have a reasonably secure and purposeful niche in rural Nebraska, USA and the Hong Kong that I knew is gone......changed beyond recognition.
I and my contemporaries from that time and place are scattered over the world, reminiscing with one another daily on FaceBook groups.
 
I was sitting at the pool watching my kids in the water while we were in Texas and I began talking to the man beside me. He said he was from Texas and I told him I was from PA. He said he was a Major with the Texas Rangers. I had been a Trooper for only about 8 years. He said I should move to Texas and apply to the Rangers.

I really thought about it, but I didn’t want to uproot my family just to suit my own ego. I had and still do have a lot of respect for the Rangers. It would have been a long distant move.
 
Repondering said:
I wished for years to move back to the city where I grew up, Hong Kong, but I never did. Managing the logistics of making a life for myself in America, the home of my parents, took up my time and energies. Now at my age, I have a reasonably secure and purposeful niche in rural Nebraska, USA and the Hong Kong that I knew is gone......changed beyond recognition.
I and my contemporaries from that time and place are scattered over the world, reminiscing with one another daily on FaceBook groups.
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I'm in the panhandle now, grew up in the Sandhills.
There's a lot of worse places to be.
 
Before I got the job with IBM in the south of England, I had started making tentative enquiries about moving to Europe or Scandinavia. As it happened, work gave me plenty of travel opportunities and I didn't feel such a desire to move. Most of my close friends scattered to the corners of the world and we lost touch. I still sometimes wish we had moved abroad, but Mrs. L just says that every country will have its own downsides.

I never got my head round people who grow up and live in the same area of their parents. I always expected that my children would make their own lives wherever they wanted. They're only a phone call away.
 
In 2011 I moved from London to Birmingham. But at the time (2010, after I left the British civil service), I was looking at moving to Spain. By the time I moved back to London in 2015, I was in such disarray that this wasn't possible for me, and a few years after that it was made much more difficult to do.
 
I live a few minutes away from the ocean, from rivers and lakes and mountains. There are places in France and Germany that are lovely but I am so content here. BF wanted to move to an apartment abroad but it's not for me and I am not sorry I didn't agree to go.
 
Capt Lightning said:
never got my head round people who grow up and live in the same area of their parents. I always expected that my children would make their own lives wherever they wanted
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When and where I grew up it was considered (even by the parents themselves) weird, old fashioned, and made you a loser if you didn’t want to move out and as far away as possible from your parents and family. Heck even back in the early 70s I overheard a woman who had kids say “What is it with all this emphasis on family togetherness? Seems like that’s all you hear these days; I’m really getting tired of it.”
 
I once considered Australia, but seeing one of these....decided our spiders are enough.
 

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I grew up surrounded by ocean, bay and rivers. When we moved to New England we always managed to have water within reach. Now, in Georgia, there is just a creek in the back yard.
We vacationed at NCs Outer Banks and expected to retire there but in never happened. After I lost my husband I gave up coastal dreams but considered Asheville, NC for its liberal artsy attributes.
 
Della said:
I'm contented living in Ohio these days. It has a nice mid-range climate. I no longer have any family left in West Virginia although I still love it there and it calls me back at times.

I always had a fantasy of living in Alaska, but I wouldn't have the energy for it now.
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I lived in Grandpa's house in Portage Lakes, OH until I was ten years old, then several places in NE Ohio but was never able to put down roots again like Grandpa's house. Left Ohio after the KSU shootings for AZ, then on to CA and now OR,. We have been here ten years and again that itch to move still needs to be scratched. Sometimes, I feel like I'm always looking to go home to the place I lost so long ago.
 

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