# Why not just move halfway across the country?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 25, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-just-move-halfway-across-the-country/318529 "2005-08-25T03:25:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-just-move-halfway-across-the-country/318529/21 "2005-08-25T16:33:11Z")

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I would move if I were you. One shouldn’t ever regret a move. Even if it doesn’t work out, you still learned something and got to experience different things. I always secretly disrespect people that live in the same general area their entire lives. If that is what your gut tells you to do, then you should do it. I doubt that you will ever get burned too badly in Austin and it will probably work out quite well.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-just-move-halfway-across-the-country/318529/22 "2005-08-25T16:39:13Z")

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> [@Campion](#):
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> I’ve done the moving halfway across the country on whim thing twice (three times?) before, and while it has its rewards, oy, is it tiring. Plus I’m allegedly a grown-up now – I always figured that by the time I hit my mid-thirties I’d be settled, not still searching for my life.

Oh, go ahead. My ex-wife pulled up stakes, moved halfway across the country, moved back, and then moved across the country again. Then when she was in her mid-30s, she moved cross-country one more time, went back to school for an entirely new field of study, and when she finished that, she moved cross-country again.

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