How attached are you to where you live? - General

Do you want to move from where you live right now? Stay where you are forever? Tour the world but return to where you live now? Don't care any which way? My family keeps asking me where I plan to go after college and I don't really have an idea. A lot of my friends classmates just want to get their degree and keep a job near home, some others see it as a ticket to get out of wherever they grew up. I've moved all over the USA so I don't feel any strong loyalty to where I live right now but I feel this isn't normal.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51843737]After Uni this year I'll be searching for jobs abroad. Living in New Zealand has a pretty deep and dark history. It will be 10 years living in this country. The country itself is fine. What's happened in my personal life however is something I'd like to move away from and forget. Maybe I'll come back to NZ at some point but right now I just wanna get through Uni and work in a different country. That's pretty ideal to me.[/QUOTE] Understandable. How do you go about picking where to move to though? Family connections? Job opportunities? Cool factor (USA, Japan, ect)?

I don't have any attachments to the place where I live but I would prefer a safer neighborhood.

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;51843718]Do you want to move from where you live right now? Stay where you are forever? Tour the world but return to where you live now? Don't care any which way? My family keeps asking me where I plan to go after college and I don't really have an idea. A lot of my friends classmates just want to get their degree and keep a job near home, some others see it as a ticket to get out of wherever they grew up. I've moved all over the USA so I don't feel any strong loyalty to where I live right now but I feel this isn't normal.[/QUOTE] There isn't such thing as "normal" or "not normal". If you don't feel like living where you currently do, then it's perfectly fine to want to go away. Currently i live in another city because of university (but i do periodically return home). My mother temporarily works in Germany (but also tends to return home every once in a while). The home tends to stay empty most of the time. My home village is fucking shit honestly, the neighbours are fucking assholes and trash, except for a few exceptions of course. It's kinda far away from my friends and from the nearest city. There is nothing good there except maybe the nature. I certainly want to permanently remove myself from there when i get the chance. My mother eventually plans to build a new house somewhere. Not too far away tho, my father and cousin live in the neighbouring village and i want to stay in (physical) contact often. Maybe next to the closest city somewhere.

I had attachment here, I thought going back to Florida after HS would allow me to see my old friends again. (Moved away my senior year.) Needless to say they moved on, and I'm stuck here doing uni. I'd love to leave, but I have nowhere else to go. It's edgy but I wan't to find somewhere I can be truly happy in with a healthy social life, just no idea where that would be. So no, not attached at all :v:

Angeleno for life! The people and job opportunities are just too great here in LA.

I'd love to move somewhere else, jacksonville florida blows chunks.

I much prefer living in Austin, Texas to my shitty New Jersey suburb hometown.

I'm not attached to anything

[QUOTE=Booker K;51843807]I moved from California to Idaho not long ago, I personally felt more attached living back there because the rest of my family is there at the same time getting a job and living expenses are a pain in the ass, so I ended up moving with my parents to Idaho last month and already I have a job. I guess I feel sorta attached to where I currently live but at the same time it doesn't feel the same not being around my other relatives as much, I miss them.[/QUOTE] I moved from California going into high school. I felt devastated since it was where I grew up but now that its been so long I don't really have any connections there. Some of my neighbors still live in the cul-de-sac but everyone my age went to college and skipped town so there's not much for me to go back to besides a few relatives. Kinda going through the same thing now with college, all of my high school friends went different places for school and only about 1/2 are staying where I live now post-graduation. It'd be nice to keep the friends I made in high school but its not exactly keeping me there.

i like Melbourne too much Familiar enough with the place, good friends with people here and there [i]seems[/i] to be enough jobs at the moment with what I want to do in the future. A lot of people here seem to be p. cool with the lgbt stuff with is a nice bonus for me. also actually cant beat our doofs tbh

I'm kinda used to moving constantly due to circumstances, don't have much physical belongings with me other than clothes and some hardware, stuff I can load onto a train anytime. One of the reasons I've been putting off building a PC was that I thought moving it would be a hassle but after a year I'm more confident I'm staying here for a while. So yeah I don't find it weird to move at all, at least as a young adult. Gotta figure this shitty MMO out before setting down somewhere :eng101:

I'm moving to Kansas in the fall for college and I cannot wait to put as much distance between California and myself as possible.

I've lived in alberta all my life. Eventually, i thought i was mature enough to move out on my own and afford everything myself. I moved out with a room mate, out to british columbia, and while it would have been alright if i wasn't paying a majority of the rent, i really missed my family and friends after a few months, and moved back just recently. I hated living out in british columbia. It's tough to move out and move in with some friends, but its a great learning experience. You learn how to deal with people, how to deal with yourself, and you learn how to deal with the world a little bit more. While it's been tough, i'm thankful i've had to go through this and learn everything i've learned.

[QUOTE=aussiedropbear;51843850]i like Melbourne too much[/QUOTE] same tbh, it's a city people move to rather than from

I'm quite fond of Auckland, actually. The transport is good and the services are good, I've never felt I've been lacking for anything. The stuff in the metropolitan area is good (nice parks, museums, art galleries, libraries, shops etc) and the surrounding place is full of a lot of nice scenery and open spaces. I'm not that fond of my own neighbourhood (perhaps because it's basically a dead end), but I'm generally content with it. I do have a few issues with New Zealand as it is, though. The geographic isolation of it (as well as being subject to Australia pricing) means that shipping stuff can be expensive, and there are only Australians to play online games with, and there's only so many times I can hear a bogan Australian accent before I start getting irritated. Trips overseas are either Australia, the Pacific Islands, or a slight expensive, a return ticket to Europe can easily cost $1-2K.

Moved around a lot as a child and tbh i'm sick of it. At most might move from Turku to Helsinki in the future, but that's about it.

0, none, get me the fuck out of here. I want to move to a different, liberal state, far away from the south. Somewhere where I'm treated like a human being and you aren't legally allowed to discriminate against me. I hate this place. I hate the politics, I hate the landscape, I hate the weather, I hate the people. I have so many burned relationships and awful memories tied to this place and I want to leave it all behind and forget about them. I wanna get away from my entire family, forget about them, and move on with my life, surrounded by hipsters I can tolerate.

I've lived in the same city for over 25 years now and have no plans on moving. I would like to travel more, though.

As someone who never travels I honestly have no idea.

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;51843742]Understandable. How do you go about picking where to move to though? Family connections? Job opportunities? Cool factor (USA, Japan, ect)?[/QUOTE] You explore and find where ya fit. I found by going island hopping I'm more at home in a jungle or tropical forest. Where people are more laid back friendly and on island time. I'm going try go else where with same conditions when I can. There are a few ways to go about moving. You can just go. I have a relative who got the gift of gab. So he has hauled up and vanished a few times before and appear in places far from home like Hawaii. He managed to get smoozy with locals to convince them to take him in. This is a rare feat and trait. The more likely thing is go on social media of where you want to go. I suggest to step down and explore less developed locales. Its cheap and learn some things. But yes go on social media and get to know folks. After a while you can learn where to get jobs rent and learn the language or two. Then begin vacation ing there. Found a hostel and go there and meet new people. This should take a year or so and get you face to face time with the place. Once you know enough locals, it should be easy to move right in. Do realize it might be a good idea to remove any defects in ones personality before going. As mentioned before a decent personality can open doors and appaling ones can shut em real quick. I have no attachment where I live. I am tied to the USA for financial reasons. [editline]19th February 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Mister Sandman;51844203]0, none, get me the fuck out of here. I want to move to a different, liberal state, far away from the south. Somewhere where I'm treated like a human being and you aren't legally allowed to discriminate against me. I hate this place. I hate the politics, I hate the landscape, I hate the weather, I hate the people. I have so many burned relationships and awful memories tied to this place and I want to leave it all behind and forget about them. I wanna get away from my entire family, forget about them, and move on with my life, surrounded by hipsters I can tolerate.[/QUOTE] Either you live in a classy place like San Fran where your wallet takes a fucking beating where jobs exist or ya go into the stick where cost of living is cheap and everything else sucks. Welcome to America!

I'm currently studying in another city but whe I'm finished I'm heading straight back to my hometown to set up shop and start working. It's a small town, but it's very close and well connected to a big urban center (60k people) so you get the calm of living in a small town with the benefits of a big urban center. Property value is cheap, the people are nice and jobs are plentiful in my sector just a 5 km ride away in the city. Fortunately for me my girlfriend want's to move out of France and would very much like to live and work in Finland. This is good both for me and her since the region I live in has a very developed eco and sustainable energy sector, which is what she has an education for. [img]http://cdn1.hssmedia.fi/Newsmedia/2013/06/24/647/cropVLBLOT_95262.jpg[/img]

Loosely attached, but uprooting myself is easier said than done. I can't move within the city, my housing queue time is not enough to get me an apartment. I can't move to another big city because the housing crisis is universal in these. I could move to a smaller city but my choices are super limited depending on what I want to work with (anything within media or production would do, but Sweden isn't exactly known for its media industry). That said, if I found something that ticked all the necessary boxes of housing and work, I could just quit tomorrow and leave. It's just [I]a lot[/I] of necessary boxes.

Not very attached. Im from Scotland, but hated my job and being around the same people all the time (other than friends and family). Although the area I lived is beautiful, I decided I needed a change of scenery. So I quit my job and book a flight to Australia. I've been here 4 months now and haven't thought about going back. I want to travel for now. See and do new things. I will likely go back to Scotland at some point, but probably not to my home town.

I've been living in the same neighborhood for the past 13 years (since I've moved to India) so I guess I'm obligated to be attached to it at this point lol. Plus someone who lives in our apartment building has the friendliest German shepherd I've ever seen so that's cool.

I fucking hate where I live. I cannot wait to move away and I'm working as hard as I can & doing everything I can to leave.

I suppose I could say I'm attached to where I live, having lived in the family house for nearly 21 years of my life. I might most likely move out of the country once I finish my postgraduate education, initially I planned on moving to America, but considering the circumstances there atm, I might move to Switzerland instead, since I have family there in any case.

San Diego is expensive as fuck. Honestly I dislike living here too, I live in Clairemont and it's overpriced for being so run down. Reminds me of the older parts of Santa Ana and Tustin a bit. I can't find work here no matter how many applications I put in. So done with socal. Only place I'd be attached to is my parents place in Old Town Tustin. Someone come take us to Arizona where it's cheaper and we can actually afford to buy a house that is the same size as ones here for literally a 10th of the cost. :scream:

I don't really like change and I got my family where I live now. I could see myself living in a city though but it's fine as it is.

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;51844771]I suppose I could say I'm attached to where I live, having lived in the family house for nearly 21 years of my life. I might most likely move out of the country once I finish my postgraduate education, initially I planned on moving to America, but considering the circumstances there atm, I might move to Switzerland instead, since I have family there in any case.[/QUOTE] Come to the Caribbean. You would do well there. The reason? Depends where you live. There is a strong Indian culture there. Guyana is the only English speaking nation in South Americas and has a majority of Hindu culture. Since you re well off, some place will net you connections with some rich and powerful people. Its worth exploring. As a doctor it will get you exposure to deal with some conditions found no where else which could be useful experience later in your life when you do research for a cure. Its an option worth exploring.