Do you ever get that "let's burn this house down and move on" feeling? Let's get an adrenaline rush and move to an island with a population of 124. Let's find out what's in Kentucky or Indiana.
Tom and I live in this state of being pretty much all the time. It keeps the marriage sizzling to dream impossible dreams and then one day fall off the maturity wagon and blow your life apart by actually moving to, say, a trillo in Puglia, Italy.
Okay, if we can't drive there, we won't get there.
We have no money, so our sites are modest. Below are places "from away" priced well below $100,000.
Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia
Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Springfield, Kentucky
Bloomington, IndianaDo you ever want to burn it down and move on? Or are you comfortable staying where you are?
Those are some colorful houses. Yes, I subscribe to the idea of throwing in the housing towel and moving on. However it doesn't seem like the grass is ever green enough for long. I'd probably get tired of my purple house eventually and want to burn it down too. Seems easier than painting the damn thing.
ReplyDeleteI've been feeling that feeling myself lately. After twelve years of grad school, I am ready for my husband to get a real job. We've looked at possibilities in Maine, St. Kitts, P.E.I, New Mexico and Tennessee, to name a few. It's looking like we will probably be here in Alabama a bit longer though (post-doctoral fellowship). It has been a great place to live but I was just remarking to him the other day that I am ready to move on to the next adventure.
ReplyDeleteso this one day i was trying to explain to my husband why it would be a good idea for us to move to kabul (yes, afghanistan). the only thing i could come up with was to sing "i want adventure in the great wide somewhere....i want much more than this provincial life" from disney's beauty and the beast. i'm not sure if he gets that i consider utah a bigger threat to my health and happiness than the taliban.
ReplyDeletebasically i want to burn it down three times a week. there isn't a place i wouldn't consider going.
those places in nova scotia look perfect.....plus if you go to canada you get free health care.
I had to laugh when I read this because every time I have to clean my house, I consider burning it down. Except the apartment complex would sue my little butt cheeks off.
ReplyDeleteI tell my husband at least once a week we need to move. Every month Country Living magazine publishes a real estate sampler. You can bet I find myself online looking at those houses. Then I ask myself, while looking at real estate in Woodstown, NJ, what would I do there?
ReplyDeleteLouise-- I've read your blog for about a year now, but haven't commented until now. Hi!
ReplyDeleteI have the move/dream of moving bug. Perhaps it has something to do with living in the same house until I left for college? Anyway, a few years ago I got the itch for an international move, and last month we moved to Amsterdam (with three kids in tow). We've been here 4 weeks now, and depending on the day, my train of thought is either, "wow, I live here!" or "holy crap, I live here!"
I was comfortable.
ReplyDeleteYes, Sarah. When the move is not wholly by choice it feels a little different.
ReplyDeleteI'm certainly at the point I'd like to stay around a while. I almost don't even care where that is.
I'm torn between wanting to burn it all and run away and staying put and never leaving. I'll probably never leave.
ReplyDeleteMy roots are gypsies. Seriously. And I feel that call of the wild more often than deep rooted bloom where you are planted spouse. But I keep looking and longing and a bag packed just in case.
ReplyDeleteIf I could but have it both ways, sigh.
ReplyDeleteWhen do I downsize, and if we did downsize where do I put all my books and my piano. Does it really rain all the time in Ireland?
I never ever get the urge to move. Ever. I like to travel, yes. But I love rootedness and layered experience in one place with the same people that you have loved and loved for years above all else. I love that every spring I can stand on my porch and look at the peony that has bloomed with great generosity for the past twenty years.
ReplyDeleteI do want to move. I have a giant laminated map of the world and one of the U.S. taped to my breakfast table. Las Vegas is the armpit of the west.
ReplyDeleteI seem to have pickiness problems. I can come up with a reason to NOT move to every state except Oregon and California. That's pretty impressive information considering I've never visited most of them!
When I visited Hawaii I saw that the school children play at recess without any shoes. I could move there.
Yup. I've been looking up real estate with old farmhouses and lots of land in upstate New York this morning, when what I really ought to be doing is cleaning my paid-for little house in Austin (where it's been over 100 degrees every day nearly all summer, blech). Burning it down and starting fresh seems like such a good plan . . . and so delusional . . .
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