True you just never know. My hubby was in the Navy so we moved around a bit. I hated Memphis. Loved O’side, Annapolis, and Lindenhurst was ok. You take the good with the bad, kind of a mix bag. It’s quite here. A traffic jam is probably at the most 20 cars. Lots of relatives. But, the winters are long and we get tons of snow. Spring doesn’t get her quick enough and summer doesn’t stay long enough. A lot of people here are snow birds, mostly retires. They leave in the winter, come back in the spring.
I grew up as an Army brat, so I know what moving around is all about. We moved every 18 months on average, during my childhood.
We finally stayed put for three years in Okinawa during the mid-sixties and I sank some roots. It made me nuts when we had to leave.
Since then, the longest I've stayed put in one house is seven years. At 57, I'm really sick of moving, but I've got at least two moves coming before I retire. Thankfully, though, they'll both be in North Texas, so it's not all that bad.
Four and a half hours away from the nearest city sounds like the middle of nowhere to me, but at my age, I think I could learn to love it. If things work out, I'll be finding something similar here in Texas in the next five years.