Have you ever wanted to just pick up and move?

[Chickerdoodle13]

I want to move all the time! I live in New Jersey, and I can't say I'm such a fan of this state! We do have some beautiful farmland and awesome trails for hiking. Heck, we even have some beautiful scenery, but an hour past that we have cities and nasty people, and everything else that makes up our Newark and Patterson and Camden! It's also way too expensive, and I shudder to think about how in the world I will ever move out of my parents' house!

I don't really care all that much about WHERE I move, but I don't want it to be somewhere that has really bad winters. I don't mind the heat so much. I don't think I'll goto the southeast though because it is just way too humid down there! I have to do more traveling first!

 

[annie3001]

my dream

more acreage for more animals!
quit my job and become the stay-at-home mom that i really want to be!

 

[hearthnsoul]

I have moved once from cape cod to texas,..It was the most freeing expereince although I loved the time we spent in mexico every few weeks,..I cried daily to go home when in texas for the whole year til our lease was up. I found that even though I am not a beach person,..when there is not any salt water in the air my heart breaks,..weird. I am also a chatty one, I can talk to anyone, anywhere and people didn't seem to appreciate it. Maybe it was because of the multilanguages spoken there that seemed to me to look like a dividing factor, who knows. I never had much trouble in mexico, I would rattle on with my broken spanish and no one seemed to mind I loved Mexico actually, we would go every couple of weeks and stay for a week or two and then come back. But in texas, I would just start rattling on with whatever language and people would look at me as if I was jeffrey dahmer.
So I learned from that experience, that I would love to just pick up and move sometimes, but only because I want more acreage, a bigger farm, more animals. So maybe a move just down the road, with more acreage, I can smell the salt in the air and I can just chat it up with any random person. If not down the road,..maybe maine.

 

[HeatherLynn]

I think this almost every morning. We just moved to a rural farm and that part I love. Its just so dang cluttered with screwed up family members lol. I thought about maine for a while. The hubby is from Mass and I loved it there but again so much screwed up family cluttering everything. We talked about Alaska for a while. Heck we talked about the farm across the street with a high wire fence.

Its easy to dream this, harder to actually take the plunge and make it happen.

 

[Mattemma]

I think about it often but dh is not up for it. The more we spend on our current home the less chance I get to sell and move,because we will never recoupe what we put into the home.Dh says the *grass* always seems greener somewhere else,and I guess he is right that our small lot/house is ok.No one bothers us,but I CAN hear my neighbor in his bathroom,lol. I hope he does not hear me!

 

[FluffyColor]

YES!!! After I found out there are no poultry allowed here, I was like "when I get older, I'm going to move to a farm in Michigan."

Now I'm trying to get the law changed, but my parents have wanted to move since I was two. I was still an only child then. They keep thinking about moving back to the city although I try to tell then it isn't safe. There's more guns and gangs, and smokers. I cannot stand being around cigarette/cigar smoke. My dad used to smoke. I almost choked when I was six because of it. Just this past year, I swear my windpipe was cut short after being in Harrah's. (It was a casino with a restaraunt in it, me, my brother and my cousins had to walk on this tiny strip of the floor, we couldn't put one toe out of it, even though my cousin's 17.) There was so much smoke I could barely breathe. I know ther's more of those in the city, but my parents think I'm crazy.

 

[midwestmilkmaiden]

*Sighhhhhh*

My family and I did 3 years ago.... sold house and moved to WI to make a better life for us.. was great but didn't work out for some reason..
Came back to where we left from and found our *Dream House*.. a little farmette.. Now we have around 20 chickens.. goats.. and one beloved Donkey.. oh and 2 daughters 2 dogs and the best cat ever!

BUT....

the idea keeps creeping up on us again to high tail it out of here ... again!

See, we love.. LOVE our home ... It's absolutely perfect, a dream!

HOWEVER..
the farmland that surrounds us is our WORST Nightmare... crop dusting.. spraying who knows what with who knows what side effects.. constantly!
I mean it's CRAZY!.. We've lived here 3 years now and every summer after they spray my family gets SICK! ... SICK from pesticides.. herbicides.. insecticides.. who knows what other -icides... and I try and raise my critters .. family and crops organically. Pretty darn hard with this craziness surrounding us!!!!!!!

It makes us sick to our stomach and hearts thinking of leaving this place that we've been blessed with.. but thinking of my children getting sick every summer makes me soooo scared!

So...

praying... praying for the right answer and way.

 

[StupidBird]

every

single


day

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

I currently live within sight of my house growing up... out of staters live there now, and are letting it rot. Hasn't been painted in like 15-20 years, and they CAN afford to do it.. made a bunch of money selling mortgage foreclosure software... anyway, I would absolutely LOVE to pack it up and move, but DH says that we can't move with 17 chickens, 11 ducks, and 2 geese.. plus the dog, cat and all those kids.... he says if I want to move, I've got to downsize... i don't want to downsize, but I am desperate to move... more than once. I'd love to spend a year on an island off the washington coast... a year in a tiny apartment in nyc, a year in the UP, maybe even a year in Arizona, or NM... a year in France would be awesome, a year in spain, a year up in canada... I don't want to be anywhere too long, but I am dying to get a 'taste' of how people live, all over.

 

[cassie]

I am planning on moving out of California in a few months. My husband died unexpectedly the first of May. We are having an auction the 21 of August to sell his extensive collection of antique engines and farm equipment and then I will be ready to relocate. Southern Missouri, east Tennessee and Arkansas are high on my list. I want a fresh start in a new location. I lost my mother, my stepfather and my husband in just over a year's time, so there is nothing to tie me here. Just have to wait 'til after the sale to see what I can afford......