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Have you moved away from your home state permanently?

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i'll be moving out to california for work in a few months, but it's just a temporary position. if i like it, i may consider staying though.
 
Yup. I've always seem to move every 3-5years and since graduating college I've lived in 2 foreign countries and 2 states. Currently living in my gf's home state (we met abroad) but we'll probably move again in the next year or in 5 years depending on where we get accepted to school.

I've always made friends by spending time with people, it could be through work, through volunteer activities or even unorganized things like hanging out at the dog park.

SunnyD said:
Now, I'd consider leaving the country if I got an acceptable job offer elsewhere.
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Same here, it's going to take another ~10years until my new career is at that point though.
 
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rudeguy said:
I can't wait to move. I love Michigan but I'm done with the weather.

3 more years!
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What are you waiting for, lil' Rudeguy to graduate?

By then, maybe you'll have met the next Mrs. Rudeguy and will be stuck in Michigan forever...go now.
 
BoomerD said:
What are you waiting for, lil' Rudeguy to graduate?

By then, maybe you'll have met the next Mrs. Rudeguy and will be stuck in Michigan forever...go now.
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Yea...he doesn't want to move and I wouldn't ask him to leave his friends.

I'm already planning my escape to Arizona. I've found a couple little towns on the edge of the desert that look very promising.
 
rudeguy said:
Yea...he doesn't want to move and I wouldn't ask him to leave his friends.

I'm already planning my escape to Arizona. I've found a couple little towns on the edge of the desert that look very promising.
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Don't ASK him to leave his friends...TELL HIM "We're moving. Deal with it."
 
I think moving far, far FAR FAR away is the only way to make it right now.

Its because everyone who has established jobs, are clutching onto those jobs. Look at the news casters on TV. Its just sad at this point. They're going to end up like Dick Clark with a bunch of 30 year old interns propping him up for the camera. Ya know, instead of a 30 year old actually getting a news caster job. I think the youngest news caster I've seen is like 52 lol.

I would really not hesitate to move out of the country. I think its obvious that there aren't "opportunities for all" its more like "specific opportunities if you luckily have the right skills" and everyone else has to move or be poor. Thats the choice. Its really simple.
 
MN to TX in January. I know one person here because she moved from MN a few years ago. I've met some people at work, but most of them have families so hanging out of them isn't really an option. To meet people, I've been going to meetup groups doing volunteer work, playing sports, and doing similar things I like. It helps that I work for an airline company, so home is so much closer.
 
i got out of Grand Rapids when i was 18. I think we come to appreciate more, our home towns as we age. When I go back, it does not seem nearly as bad as it did when i was younger. Went to school, and then moved out to Wyoming the week after i graduated.

I am a socially awkward engineer, so it is very hard to make new friends and find people to hang out with. At first, all of us new hire engineers spent a lot of time together, but I am the only one of that group left. Finding some activities, in my case, mountain biking and hanging out at the only cool bar in town have made me a few friends. Most of my socializing happens at work. It is even harder when you do not spend consistent time in town as we do. We work 14 days and get 7 off, often out of town for part or all of the 14 days. I talk to some of my highschool and college friends but most of us are in vastly different parts of the country and a few of us get together when the holidays come around and a few make it back to Michigan. I have been here almost 4 years now and have made few lasting friendships.
 
BoomerD said:
Still discussing our possibilities. Arizona is too fucking hot...New Mexico is too close to Texas...:biggrin:

Maybe back to Wyoming...maybe back to Warshington, (although NOT back to Spokane...maybe Seattle area)...maybe to Oregon...but, as much as we'd like it, definitely NOT to Maui...just can't afford that. 🙁
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if you do come back here, please leave all those CA ideas behind 😀
 
herm0016 said:
i got out of Grand Rapids when i was 18. I think we come to appreciate more, our home towns as we age. When I go back, it does not seem nearly as bad as it did when i was younger. Went to school, and then moved out to Wyoming the week after i graduated.

I am a socially awkward engineer, so it is very hard to make new friends and find people to hang out with. At first, all of us new hire engineers spent a lot of time together, but I am the only one of that group left. Finding some activities, in my case, mountain biking and hanging out at the only cool bar in town have made me a few friends. Most of my socializing happens at work. It is even harder when you do not spend consistent time in town as we do. We work 14 days and get 7 off, often out of town for part or all of the 14 days. I talk to some of my highschool and college friends but most of us are in vastly different parts of the country and a few of us get together when the holidays come around and a few make it back to Michigan. I have been here almost 4 years now and have made few lasting friendships.
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Next time you come back, let me buy you lunch
 
Moved the second I feasibly could and have not looked back. No desire to ever return or see anyone from there again.

I started new social circles through work, being a musician and the hacking/security community. I had one friend here when I moved.
 
I currently live 35 minutes from the hospital I was born in, and 25 min from where I grew up and lived my whole life.

Don't plan on moving.
 
herm0016 said:
i got out of Grand Rapids when i was 18. I think we come to appreciate more, our home towns as we age. When I go back, it does not seem nearly as bad as it did when i was younger. Went to school, and then moved out to Wyoming the week after i graduated.

I am a socially awkward engineer, so it is very hard to make new friends and find people to hang out with. At first, all of us new hire engineers spent a lot of time together, but I am the only one of that group left. Finding some activities, in my case, mountain biking and hanging out at the only cool bar in town have made me a few friends. Most of my socializing happens at work. It is even harder when you do not spend consistent time in town as we do. We work 14 days and get 7 off, often out of town for part or all of the 14 days. I talk to some of my highschool and college friends but most of us are in vastly different parts of the country and a few of us get together when the holidays come around and a few make it back to Michigan. I have been here almost 4 years now and have made few lasting friendships.
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I don't think its possible to actually rebuild good friends like you do when you are younger. The relationships seem alot shallower when you get older. If you resign to this fact and just get a good ability to make small talk it seems the best way to hang out with "strangers". Even some of my adult friends still pretty much feel like strangers lol.
 
OverVolt said:
So then, are you poor, or are you lucky? 😛
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lucky, I went to work for a local company, which got bought by a bigger company, which got bought by an international conglomerate. Now I work from home in small town USA for the same outfit.
 
i may move to nashville area in a few years

i hate that it was in the confederacy, but i hear that it is not too bad around there. house prices are expensive though.
 
I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was a little slow and didn't realize you didn't have to stay where you were born til I was 18. I left straight away. Well, Uncle Sam might have had a little to do with that. 😀

Minneapolis is a GREAT city. Art, history, food, melting pot of cultures, lakes, parks and, the list goes on and on for it's attractions. You just can't live there. I'd vacation there in a heartbeat.

I always enjoyed the "west" in my travels as a kid to the National Parks so, I moved to NM. As a "yout," I always had an itchy foot so to speak and any time I got bored, didn't like my job or, had a personal relationship making me crazy, I moved to another State. Well, fast forward half a century and, I've lived and worked in every State west of the Mississippi and a number east of.

I've made friends every place I've been although I'm not a particularly outgoing person but, I know how to help people enjoy themselves. It's the gift of hospitality.

It's all about choices. You have to choose to be happy whatever your circumstances. I made a choice long ago to give enjoying life every day a higher priority than earning money in the hope that I could someday make up for the years spent earning it.

Your questions are interesting. The U.S. census says only 1 in 10 ever move more than 150 miles from where they were born. I wonder how our changing economy will affect that number and if more people will relocate or make peace with earning less?
 
I moved to California 30 some years ago after college. I can't see going back to those midwestern winters. 🙂
 
OverVolt said:
I don't think its possible to actually rebuild good friends like you do when you are younger. The relationships seem alot shallower when you get older. If you resign to this fact and just get a good ability to make small talk it seems the best way to hang out with "strangers". Even some of my adult friends still pretty much feel like strangers lol.
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I think I am slowly realizing this as I get older in the work world. Really it is easy to have acquaintances but in terms of finding long lasting friends like from college it is very hard.

Some of my friends from college I can just chill with. We don't need to talk a lot and there can be lots of silence -- but it isn't awkward. That basically doesn't exist with friends I have made since I started working.
 
I've been in my province, and city all my life. In fact I've only really moved twice. First time I was not even a year old yet, then the 2nd time I moved from my parent's to my own house. Probably going to stay here for as long as it makes financial sense. 16 years to go and this place is paid off. 😛

I'd love a bigger yard so I can setup stuff like a wind turbine or solar panels though, but that's a dream for later.
 
Grew up and went to college in VA. Moved to TX for a while and now in FL. Life is a big adventure, I'm not the type to stay put in one place. Mostly moved for better weather (hate cold and snow) and quality of life (jobs, affordability, things to do). People are nice and helpful everywhere.
 
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