WANTED: 3BD/3BTH FAMILY HOME WITH PORCH &YARD
CAUTION: if you are in no mood to hear me get all crazy trying to plan where dane and i will live in 2 years i suggest you stop reading now :)
i know that dane and i still have 1 1/2 years until we are done with flagstaff. it is seriously seriously KILLING me not knowing where we will move when we are done with this. i have so many questions and so many things i want to research and i just can't! here are a few thoughts i keep having:
what started me on this topic is whenever dane and i talk about it he always says when he graduates he is going to be sending out applications anywhere and everywhere. when he says that i just keep imagining we will end up in alabama or somewhere because they want to give 90,000 to work there. so here comes another question:
it's really hard because until recently i just always assumed we would move back to california when we were done with this flagstaff thing. but as i started doing some obsessive research on houses, even apartments, i realized we would seriously struggle moving back there. so is moving closer to our families worth sacrificing the nicer things we wanted in our future? but at the same time is it worth having those nicer things but your family is 5,000 miles away and won't be able to share it with you?
my entire life i always imagined that i would host the holiday parties. i know that is a totally weird thing to imagine but i did. i imagined it would be my house for thanksgiving....the 4th of july BBQ....anyone's birthday...whatever. it would be at our house. well the dream is completely out the door if we move to washington. but if we move to california will we be able to afford a big enough house to host all these people. for those of you who don't know: dane and i have A LOT of family.
i know you are all probably thinking...."OMG JENNA CHILL OUT!" sadly this is how my brain works. when i don't know what to expect my brain tries to prepare for anything and everything haha.
perfect world:
i know that dane and i still have 1 1/2 years until we are done with flagstaff. it is seriously seriously KILLING me not knowing where we will move when we are done with this. i have so many questions and so many things i want to research and i just can't! here are a few thoughts i keep having:
- will we move back to california? pro: i miss our families like crazy! con: it is sooo stinking expensive it makes me sick to my stomach
- will we stay in arizona? pro: the housing market is pretty reasonably priced. con: i just don't see us feeling like "home" in arizona
- do we dare try.....the east coast? pro: somewhere different. con: possibly A LOT more snow. u know how i feel about the snow!
what started me on this topic is whenever dane and i talk about it he always says when he graduates he is going to be sending out applications anywhere and everywhere. when he says that i just keep imagining we will end up in alabama or somewhere because they want to give 90,000 to work there. so here comes another question:
- do we move somewhere dane will make a lot more money but the town kind of sucks?
- do we take a pay cut and move somewhere you will love?
it's really hard because until recently i just always assumed we would move back to california when we were done with this flagstaff thing. but as i started doing some obsessive research on houses, even apartments, i realized we would seriously struggle moving back there. so is moving closer to our families worth sacrificing the nicer things we wanted in our future? but at the same time is it worth having those nicer things but your family is 5,000 miles away and won't be able to share it with you?
my entire life i always imagined that i would host the holiday parties. i know that is a totally weird thing to imagine but i did. i imagined it would be my house for thanksgiving....the 4th of july BBQ....anyone's birthday...whatever. it would be at our house. well the dream is completely out the door if we move to washington. but if we move to california will we be able to afford a big enough house to host all these people. for those of you who don't know: dane and i have A LOT of family.
i know you are all probably thinking...."OMG JENNA CHILL OUT!" sadly this is how my brain works. when i don't know what to expect my brain tries to prepare for anything and everything haha.
perfect world:
- we move back to southern california
- we don't pay a billion dollars for the type of house we want
- we don't live next door to our family but a decent drive away
- our house is where the party is at lol
well, it took us a few years, but we finally realized that for us, it is worth it live crammed in a tiny place to be where we want to be (in a beach town!), relatively close to family. for us, the sacrifice of better pay, and cheaper living expenses (ie when we lived in CO) were not worth giving up being close to our loved ones and the beach. now, we have an amazing church family here, too which really solidifies that we are where we are supposed to be. I too, dream of entertaining but for now, we stick to having people over when it's nice enough to eat outside where we can fit more than 4 people at the table. :)
ReplyDeleteyou'll figure it out! :) sometimes you have to go somewhere else to realize where you really want to be. thankfully, God's in control, and we were super blessed when he opened the doors for us to come back here.