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In reply to the discussion: How often do you daydream about moving elsewhere? [View all]mnhtnbb
(32,218 posts)when my husband and I left Los Angeles because we didn't want to raise kids there. We ended up in St Joseph, MO. In 1994 we went to look at moving to New Zealand. That turned out not to be right for him, and so we moved to Lincoln, NE. After six years there, we moved to Chapel Hill, NC.
In 2005, fearing the damage of a second Bush Administration, we bought property in Panama and went so far as to complete the requirements to obtain permanent resident visas: it was to be an escape hatch. After Obama was elected in 2008, we sold the Panama property.
In 2015, we began to fear Trump. We looked at buying on Bonaire, but didn't. I asked my husband in spring 2016 if he'd consider at least getting off the mainland --if Trump were to win --by moving to Hawaii. He said he would. When Trump won, I asked my husband if I should book a look see trip to Hawaii in December. He declined: said he wasn't moving.
When my husband killed himself in 2018, we were separated and I was seriously thinking about booking a trip to France/Spain/Portugal to live abroad for 6 months and decide if I could make a move on my own. Lyon, in France, was my top choice. But I had an elderly dog and couldn't bring myself to book a trip leaving her here in the US while I went abroad. Then in March 2020 Covid hit and that was the end of the fantasy of going to live in Europe for six months to try out moving there. Instead, I bought a house to be built in Durham (NC) and moved here on Jan 6, 2021.
I have no dreams or plans to move again.