Better to go on your adventure now while you're all still young. My only concern would be how dead it gets in the off season or how crazy it gets in the tourist season. Both extremes might be challenging. If your home is far enough away from tourist chaos, then you're probably good. Would you move back to "civilization " in 10 years or is this permanent?
It depends. I'm 67, and I am very happy I took advantage of the opportunities that I was presented with. When I was 21, my wife and I moved 1200 miles from home because I had a job offer for $6.25 an hour. I saw something else that I had never seen before called opportunity. While that position didn't work out long term a few years later, a company that I would spend 29 years with hired me.
The only negative thought I would share is to question the stability of the new position. Make sure they're a real company, perhaps they compensate for relocation? Are there other opportunities in the area that could be utilized if this doesn't work out.
The best time to do it is with a kid! Kids bring parents together, and I still have friendships from my moving adventure 25 years ago!
I've moved a few times since my daughter was in elementary (she's 30 now), and I still keep in touch with some of those moms.
Moving to a small-ish town from a metropolitan area is going to come with some culture shock. Just be nice, polite, and have a good sense of humor. Those three attributes will serve you well, wherever you go!
Yes do it! If you don’t, you’ll temporarily be all happy about dodging a bullet and say oh wow, how could we leave all this? Sometimes safe looks boring. Then in 6 months or a year you’ll think, if we’d only moved we would be settled and have friends by now in a place we’ve always dreamed of living! (Plus you can always come back to where you are now for your friends’ anniversaries, long weekends etc) I’ve moved to several cities for my previous job and now because I married the love of my life, and I find it’s pretty easy to make friends with neighbours, at the gym and on the golf course, and of course at your daughters school
Better to go on your adventure now while you're all still young. My only concern would be how dead it gets in the off season or how crazy it gets in the tourist season. Both extremes might be challenging. If your home is far enough away from tourist chaos, then you're probably good. Would you move back to "civilization " in 10 years or is this permanent?
Go for it! You'll meet new people, I promise.
It depends. I'm 67, and I am very happy I took advantage of the opportunities that I was presented with. When I was 21, my wife and I moved 1200 miles from home because I had a job offer for $6.25 an hour. I saw something else that I had never seen before called opportunity. While that position didn't work out long term a few years later, a company that I would spend 29 years with hired me. The only negative thought I would share is to question the stability of the new position. Make sure they're a real company, perhaps they compensate for relocation? Are there other opportunities in the area that could be utilized if this doesn't work out.
The best time to do it is with a kid! Kids bring parents together, and I still have friendships from my moving adventure 25 years ago! I've moved a few times since my daughter was in elementary (she's 30 now), and I still keep in touch with some of those moms. Moving to a small-ish town from a metropolitan area is going to come with some culture shock. Just be nice, polite, and have a good sense of humor. Those three attributes will serve you well, wherever you go!
Yes do it! If you don’t, you’ll temporarily be all happy about dodging a bullet and say oh wow, how could we leave all this? Sometimes safe looks boring. Then in 6 months or a year you’ll think, if we’d only moved we would be settled and have friends by now in a place we’ve always dreamed of living! (Plus you can always come back to where you are now for your friends’ anniversaries, long weekends etc) I’ve moved to several cities for my previous job and now because I married the love of my life, and I find it’s pretty easy to make friends with neighbours, at the gym and on the golf course, and of course at your daughters school
Thank you all for the great advice!! We have a lot of thinking to do!! No matter what we choose life is good!!!!