@Sgt Fury
I perused your question in the “what’s in your cup” thread and figured I’d start a new thread that folks can see and add their take on this subject.
It’s early and I just got woke up by a dog who had too go outside for a couple minutes. So I figured I’d start something then when I’m more wide awake, I’ll add my adventure in relocating too an area that people still shake their head at for us too move too.
I know quite a few on here have done the move too different states due too job relocations, or just changing jobs. I’ve done it when I was younger and when the wife and I got married. Bounced around a few states, until finally settling back where we grew up. It was one of those easy decisions, especially when the kids arrived.
Fast forward too our empty nest years, the wife wasn’t thrilled with the winters like she once was, her job was stressing her out, her family was stressing her out. I’d retired and for me I was good with staying or going. We’d always talked about heading too the Carolina’s at some point in our lives, but nothing serious up too that point.
One day she came home from work and instead of a stressed out wife, I saw a woman who was no longer happy, and one on the verge of losing it. She couldn’t take anymore and it was affecting her health.
So, we started looking online. Our son and daughter in law were living in Columbia SC at the time. I know I didn’t want sand and pine needles around me so that ruled that area out. I started looking at houses only with basements. That ruled out a lot of sand and pine needle areas.
North Carolina, above Charlotte I started seeing more and more. Pictures didn’t reveal many pine trees, and from there I started the crime reports for different locations.
I liked the Hickory area on paper, but it didn’t trip our trigger when we arrived. Davie county was another area. Small town environment, close too metro areas. Little over an hour to Charlotte, Greensboro, and half that too winston Salem.
4 major lakes within an hour. Mountains a little over an hour. Beach in 3-5 hours depending on your tastes. Hurricanes not a big worry. Mild winters, very little snow. Summers are a little more than what Ohio has, but not unbearable.
I can be back in Salem in less than 7 hours, stroud’s in 5.
Apparently I’m a little more awake than I thought. I’ll add more later on. But suffice it too say, we made a good choice so far. It’s worked out pretty well for us.
I perused your question in the “what’s in your cup” thread and figured I’d start a new thread that folks can see and add their take on this subject.
It’s early and I just got woke up by a dog who had too go outside for a couple minutes. So I figured I’d start something then when I’m more wide awake, I’ll add my adventure in relocating too an area that people still shake their head at for us too move too.
I know quite a few on here have done the move too different states due too job relocations, or just changing jobs. I’ve done it when I was younger and when the wife and I got married. Bounced around a few states, until finally settling back where we grew up. It was one of those easy decisions, especially when the kids arrived.
Fast forward too our empty nest years, the wife wasn’t thrilled with the winters like she once was, her job was stressing her out, her family was stressing her out. I’d retired and for me I was good with staying or going. We’d always talked about heading too the Carolina’s at some point in our lives, but nothing serious up too that point.
One day she came home from work and instead of a stressed out wife, I saw a woman who was no longer happy, and one on the verge of losing it. She couldn’t take anymore and it was affecting her health.
So, we started looking online. Our son and daughter in law were living in Columbia SC at the time. I know I didn’t want sand and pine needles around me so that ruled that area out. I started looking at houses only with basements. That ruled out a lot of sand and pine needle areas.
North Carolina, above Charlotte I started seeing more and more. Pictures didn’t reveal many pine trees, and from there I started the crime reports for different locations.
I liked the Hickory area on paper, but it didn’t trip our trigger when we arrived. Davie county was another area. Small town environment, close too metro areas. Little over an hour to Charlotte, Greensboro, and half that too winston Salem.
4 major lakes within an hour. Mountains a little over an hour. Beach in 3-5 hours depending on your tastes. Hurricanes not a big worry. Mild winters, very little snow. Summers are a little more than what Ohio has, but not unbearable.
I can be back in Salem in less than 7 hours, stroud’s in 5.
Apparently I’m a little more awake than I thought. I’ll add more later on. But suffice it too say, we made a good choice so far. It’s worked out pretty well for us.
