Moving House thread

[Timosity]

This is a topic everyone will come across in there lives, at any age.

I've been doing a lot of planning lately and am moving myself interstate. From Sydney NSW to the Gold Coast QLD.

I have my own property which I'm renting out in Sydney, which is in a good area and gets me a good return, I'm positively geared, if anyone understands, so in a good position.

I have already lined up a job on the Gold Coast, which I can start whenever I like, which I picked a date, and am organising myself around that. So will be relocating myself to a completely new area.

I do have friends there, and really good old friends that will be so good to see regularly again, but not as many people I can just visit randomly, but there is still phone and internet i guess.

It was also more an Idea, 'I don't get time for holidays with my work, why not turn my work into a holiday,' I'm actually getting paid more with the new job too, and will get more holidays, so everything seems to be working out for the better, and in these strange times, I still seem to be able to pull thru. I've done it tough at times but things are looking up.

I'm so looking forward to meeting lots of new people, it is such an open friendly culture up there, you only have to go there once to know what I'm talking about.

I plan to keep moving north till I collect everything I want on the way (ie wife and kids) and find a place to settle that we can all enjoy, prob somewhere more tropical. Well sounds like a good plan, and I will make it work.

It will be a big change but I've gone about everything so far, so casually, it will probably be a good transition.

What are other peoples moving experiences? or reasons for moving?

[R4L]

I've mostly moved around a lot because I had to. We've never owned a house, we've always rented out, and almost every time, the landlord would find a buyer, and we'd have to move. I hate it.

We actually had this really nice house, that we rented from my aunt who lived in Indiana. Then she got in a divorce with her husband, and decided to move back here, and live in the house, so once again we had to move.

Sometimes we'd have to move and there would be no alternative. Nothing temporary. So we'd have to split and stay with friends or family. That was hard to do, and it got pretty depressing.

I'll probably end up moving a lot more. It's bound to happen.

[Timosity]

Yeah, that's not so much fun, especially when you are at a good place and you don't get a choice in staying.

There are other more major reasons why people move, eg. fleeing wars. And they are not accepted well in the places they end up. not all the time anyway.

[Pumaman]

I enjoy moving house, when it's on my own terms. Obviously being forced out by the landlord isn't much fun at all, but moving around is good as it gives you lots of different experiences and knowledge of different areas. I try to move house at least once a year, though admittedly I've been in my current place for 2 years now so I'm definitely getting the jitters for moving again.

The only real annoyance is the actual moving weekend when you have to drive back and forwards with all your stuff, but at least it provides an opportunity to throw out junk and stop yourself accumulating too much!

[Tuomas]

I just moved up north some 150km a month ago. I had a student flat in Tampere - Finland, and moved to Jyväskylä, into my own flat, that's twice as big and 30% more expensive, that's 339€ / month.

I never really considered the place I had a home, as I had to share the place with 1-3 flatmates, who were as they were, sometimes nice, sometimes not so. I'm growing really fond of this little city. There's lots of green parks, roads for pedestrians and cyclists like me, a grand main street that's not open for cars at all, and most of all, the city's built around a university. I study there, a lot of people do, basically with lots of schools and colleges etc, the place is pretty much filled with young people.

I see a huge difference everyday. There's no occasional bums sitting in the corners drinking on monday mornings, no horns, no grey walls and angry people. There's now orange and red and brown trees, people jogging or cycling, and short distances too.

I was growing a bit ored of my friends back in Tampere. I knew some here to begin with, but by the time, I've met a lot of awesome people, that including the 22 women and 4 men that study German philology with me at the uni.

I've started decorating the place. I got new curtains for starters, they were rather expensive, but hey, the flat is built in 2004, it's by the lake, 1,5 km from the centre and the university, and 30 squaremetres altogether with a french balcony. So basically better than the old one in every way. Except for the rent, but that's ok, I'll cope. I think I feel more alive than in the last 2-3 years, and that's a lot. I'll just have to make sure my other long distance relationships with my other friends and my girlfriend won't suffer from all of this. Luckily I can usually combine it all, and the new friends I've got here are really nice, and would probably not mind me having two lives combined

[Timosity]

Yeah, getting more excited everyday now, my move will be about 1000km north of where I am, It'll be a little bit warmer generally all year, but probably more humid and a bit more rain than I'm used to (any rain would be more). A move to continue my adventure thru life, my job is an adventure everyday too. I've set myself up for lifestyle not money. and I've enjoyed it so much more. With investments to back me up, and just lucky I'm going from the biggest city in the country with property in a decent area, so it gives me something to set a family up with, when I finally get to that stage, it's all part of the major plan.

But ready to keep partying at the moment, and moving to another happening place, I'll hopefully settle down, I thought I'd settled down in my 20's but I keep living in places where I meet younger people. Even some of my friends have kids the same age as my friends.

But yes Cj the dreaded moving, driving the car back and forth, I'll be doing that this weekend, just temporarily at my parents before I make the trip interstate, I may get a furnished place if I can, to save moving much, and I'm leaving my place part furnished, so Possibly even buying furniture after I move. I've moved a bit over the years, but not as often as every year. Been at my current place for 3 years, but it has run its course. It's been awesome, and that is what I can take out of the last 3 years.

including the 22 women .................  and my girlfriend won't suffer from all of this.

just shortening the quote, haha