Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anyone ever move for the sake of your family vs. professional gain ?

I moved once.

It was terrible.

It's hell on earth.

I haven’t had to yet but my wife and I are keeping our options open in light of the Covid insanity. I am in health care. My director knows that if vax mandates come down I will be leaving. I hope that it doesn’t come to that and that our governor, Tiny Andy, keeps a lid on his stupidity. Our family decision is that it’s best to live as freely as possible.

I didn’t move homes but I left a great job with great pay and benefits and bought a septic pump truck because of my family. I was in the road 25% of the time and was being a lousy dad and husband. Best thing I have ever done. Once I switched I never missed a game, school event or birthday again. Still have a row of silk ties in the closet just to remind me what is important in life and it’s not money.

Would like to move now, and have for a while. But we won’t because of family reasons- 3 of our adult kids and all (5) of our grandkids live within 15 minutes of our house. If they all would move with us, we would be out of here. Oregon is not anything like what it was when I moved here in 42 years ago.
And I have my own healthcare practice and would like to work in it until at least I am 70 ( which is 7.5 yrs). And then keep my options open whether I want to stay in it longer than that. But our crazy nazi bio-oootch of a governor is going to require the jab for all healthcare “workers” - even private owners. Guess we are now just government workers. Such a load of BS. I could go on and on about how I feel about all of this gov. control- but will keep this short.
Did not think the end of my working career - or later life in general was going to come down to this. I am sure most of us did not either. I do not see things ending up great for this country the way things are going. The water is circling. It is just that some states are worse than others. And the left coast has become an awful place to live.

Well that is my rant.

Yes, family of five 21 years ago. I'd do it again if circumstances were the same.

Opposite for me. We moved away from our immediate families in mid careers for better opportunities and it was one of the best decisions we ever made.

Yep, moved across the world for 1/2 the pay & benefits.

Couldn't be happier !

Anyone that "knows" me, knows this is the truth.

But you brought the yard ornament along, no?

Gotta be a Forum win of the day.

I just finished unloading the moving van and unboxing/storing everything in the new house. I filled up every open storage area in the house and told my wife that I feel really bad about it. She asked why and I said "this is the last time I relocate our stuff. Next time, it'll be the nieces and nephews having to dig through all this crap to figure out what is worth keeping."

I was actually a little more uptown back then...if you can believe it.

It was the find of a lifetime, no doubt!

15 moves for me since 1991 until we got here in 2016.

And that doesn't count the twice yearly seasonal moves of clothes, hunting and fishing equipment from E WA to wherever my wife was working at the time.

Kinda sucked a bit. But I guess I got to see/work in a whole lot of diverse parts of the US of A.

And I forgot one of the biggest moves of all, when I was 9. My dad moved us completely across the country, from the NE corner to the SE corner of the Nation because doctors said it would likely be better for my kid brother's health. Dad's skills were transferable, he ended up working for Dr Jonas Salk's Institute for a few years.

I missed out on growing up with a bunch of cousins, but they ended up moving anyway.

I look at that move as not only saving my little bro's life, but mine too, as I don't think I'd have done too well living in THE major eastern seaboard city.

Sometimes family is more important than staying put.

Never get more than 2 steps from the heavy green—words I’ve lived by for close to 50 years.

Yes, cannot put a price on family

We got jerked up in 1962 and moved to Box Elder County Utah. I was 9, my brother 10, 2 sisters ages 6 and <1. It was for a job that paid about $10 K max. It was horrible. We moved away from a country home surrounded by a large extended family into 5 years of POW status in Mormon country. First question always "what ward do you live in?". Keep your kids around family if you can and out of an alien environment. I didn't and wouldn't have moved my kids away from family and friends for double or triple the money.

Having moved for my benefit, and being the head of my family, yes, I have moved for my family's benefit. Selflessness defined. Yes, family over career, absolutely.



Moving is horrendous, especially once you've exceeded the capacity of a single 26' U-haul.

All the damned little chit dumped in boxes never to be seen again. All the bullchit you know you brought last time and didn't need since.

Possibly it'd be better to buy an excavator, dig a big hole and take a dirt nap in a proper tomb with all your chit? Just say fuuck it. I'll need a damned forklift next time!

Having a huge 3 day yard/garage sale before moving, if time allows has paid off in the past.

Sell the shît that has collected dust or been used to throw clothes on top of for years goes, bye-bye.

Take the money and pay for movers to do the heavy lifting.

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