How did you get 'here'? - Page 3

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

I grew up here, at age 17 moved away and left for about 20 years traveling about and experiencing life... getting married etc.....and ended up back here. Now have been back for about 33 years. It is home. Will most likely die here. Full circle so to speak.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@dex wrote:
Moved from Canada for DH job.Love it here in Washington state but don't know if we will stay after retirement because healthcare is so expensive.Sure hope we can afford to stay though.

@dex

I have a great uncle that moved from the states to Canada for work, he is a minister. Has been in Alberta for many decades now, and will never return here to live. They feel tied to the healthcare there. And he always loved the hunting and the beauty of Canada.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@DREAMON wrote:
We had a boat in a Marina in this area for 20 years. Actually my husband had it before we met. We wanted to buy a vacation home here but couldn't afford it.
Time flew by...my DD got married and wanted to buy our home (the home she grew up in). She and her new husband moved in to our home and we moved to a home here on the coast. That was 5 years ago and 2 grandsons ago.

@DREAMON

I love that your daughter wanted to purchase her childhood home! That is so special for both her and you, to have a new and fresh start, but a connection to that home that I'm sure is so special to you.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@GCR18 wrote:
Job transfer sent me 1,000 miles from my birth state/family.

@GCR18

Do you like where your transfer sent you? If it was really different (like moving to a big city from a farm community or from the frigid north the the sunny south) has it been an easy adjustment? Ever think of moving back 'home' someday?

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@cuddles wrote:
My parents brought me home from the hospital 76&1/2 years ago and I'm still here. I tell people my next address is Clayton's Funeral Home.

@cuddles

How cool! That is a lot of memories and life lived (not that I'm calling you old for heaven's sake, someone will accuse me of that! LOL) in a special place!

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@Burnsite wrote:
I moved to SE FL from Manhattan for a good job, and I am still here after 25+ years.

I'll move back if I can to New England, where my family lives, but it is expensive to move and also to live there.

I love my job but Florida, oh it is so not for me! But a good job is a jewel on the cushion of life, and I very much appreciate that,so FL has been good to me. But I miss my extended family. Not one of us is getting any younger, for one thing.

@Burnsite

I think that would be the hardest part, even if you loved where you moved to, if you missed a lot of special family and/or friends.

It is easier than ever to keep in touch, but it isn't the same as being there for all the various events and holidays all the time.

Glad you have been blessed with good work and can appreciate even that that isn't your first choice (Florida!).

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@LTT1 wrote:
@Mominohio

Lived all over the country ... Dad was a GM man and we got transferred a lot.

After I married, we stayed put... right here where I was born! A giant "circle of life!"

@LTT1

Did you enjoy moving a lot as a child? I know some kids thrive on it (I bet you did based on what I know of you here) and others never feel grounded.

I guess if you have to do it, and you can get your kids to see it as an adventure, it can really make a well rounded child.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@151949 wrote:
This may be a long story. When we were children my Mother had to work so during school vacations like Christmas , spring break and all summer we stayed with my Bachelor Uncle at his home in Cocoa , Florida where he had a full time housekeeper who cared for us.Pretty wonderful of him to have us and her to care for us as there were 5 of us. So - I always wanted to live in Florida but it just never worked out for me. When we retired DH & I came to Florida in January to spend 4 months in our camper.We fell in love with spending the entire winter in the warmth & sun so we bought a house and moved here. Parked the camper in a campground in Pa near Pittsburgh and now we snowbird there for the summer. How we ended up in this particular small town in SW Florida was simple - we already had family here and had vacationed here many , many times.We now feel like we have the ultimate nice retirement - home for 8 months in lovely SW Fl and 4 months with our roots, our friends & family. However, since we moved to florida 2 other couples have visited us and decided they love where we live and have moved here as well.So now we have our closest old friends AND some of our family here.

@151949

My grandparents have much the same story as your retirement years. They were the first in the family to go to the Ft. Myers area just for the winters, then all their siblings followed in their retirement. My grandparents eventually stopped coming back north, but all the others still came home for part of the year. Most of them are gone now, and I miss them so.

I'm now in the position to start thinking that I'd like to winter somewhere besides here! It will be a decade or more before it would present itself, but I'm still beginning to consider it!

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@SharkE wrote:
Lived 50 some odd yrs. in Ind. now live in Tx. Big difference ! LOL

@SharkE

So you miss 'home' a lot, or is life better in Tx? Sometimes I don't think there is always better, but just different (which can be kind of cool!).

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@Quse wrote:
I grew up not far from here and couldn't wait to get out of here to bigger, better things. Was going to start a new life on the other side of the country, then my husband asked me to marry him. I moved 25 miles from where I grew up, to where he grew up, and the more I have traveled, the more I love being "here". His parents are 1 mile away and mine still 25 miles away. We are blessed to be able to stay near family.
Hate traveling now, so I just stay "here"...and love it.

@Quse

Loving and being happy where you are at is the secret to a good life. I think some people are constantly looking for it, and glad you have found it!