Lesson learned from my move away from where i grew up

[Lifer]

you can move to a new place and it can become home to you is what i learned. i like this place, but know i can move again to maybe someplace better and it will become home to me if i get used to it.

[Headspark]

That is good to know.

I’ve lived in the same house for 43 years (except when I lived on residence at University). I’ve come to really like it here at home, the familiarity, the memories, etc…

But when my parents die I don’t know if I will be able to afford to stay here. I think about maybe selling the house and moving to a different town where the real estate is half the price, then I can live in comfort from the profit of selling this house. But when I think about moving to a different house I feel kinda home sick.

Good to know a new house can start to feel like home again, that you can get use to it, because that is probably what I will have to do…or take out a reverse home mortgage. I think those will be my only two options.

[Lifer]

yeah im already starting to forget the street names in my hometown after 5 years living in my new location. i was in my hometown for 27 years of my 37 years of life, 5 here, 1 year in oregon, 3 years in a college town, and 1 year in kentucky and then 27 years in my hometown… often i would move away and come back, but i dont think i’ll go back this time.