Evening all,
I've been lurking and looking around the threads and figured I ought to introduce myself. I've still got about 17 more pages to go in the 'so you want to buy your one-way ticket' section of the boards, but here goes. I'm recycling most of the statement I sent in with my membership activation as it pretty well sums up current affairs.
Despite growing up in the midwest, when I could make a conscious choice about where to live, I relocated to coastal, Northern California (wayyyy Northern - six hours north of the San Francisco Bay Area) for college and a more relaxed life. I consider myself 'from' Arcata (home to Humboldt State University) as the person I am has much to do with the decade or so I spent out there.
In the last year and a half my husband and I had decided we should buy a house and start our family etc - but your 'average' person is no more likely to be able to afford a house in California than Hawaii (darn real estate speculation & 'investment'). For some reason we thought it'd be a grand idea to move back to the mid-west to buy a house and be closer to family. In the process we have discovered that we're coastal people. The higher prices are worth the true 'cost of living' when it comes to happiness and compatible lifestyle. The midwest isn't a bad place to live - it's just not for us. I'll take sand and slower pace in trade for angry, rushed people any day of the week.
To balance out the artist husband, I've developed a niche in student affairs/misc. university administration. I've worked in Financial Aid for many years at universities in California and Wisconsin - and of all things noticed a recent posting at Kaua'i Community College's Financial Aid Office. I wouldn't go so far as to start using the f-word (...fate), but that was one excellent case of serendipity if nothing else. Even if that prospect doesn't come to fruition, the hubby and I are still eagerly looking into relocating to Kaua'i or perhaps Maui. Really, we'd be quite happy on either island, but the garden isle has particularly captured our hearts.
I look forward to learning a lot from everyone on here.
~cheers
Lindsay
I've been lurking and looking around the threads and figured I ought to introduce myself. I've still got about 17 more pages to go in the 'so you want to buy your one-way ticket' section of the boards, but here goes. I'm recycling most of the statement I sent in with my membership activation as it pretty well sums up current affairs.
Despite growing up in the midwest, when I could make a conscious choice about where to live, I relocated to coastal, Northern California (wayyyy Northern - six hours north of the San Francisco Bay Area) for college and a more relaxed life. I consider myself 'from' Arcata (home to Humboldt State University) as the person I am has much to do with the decade or so I spent out there.
In the last year and a half my husband and I had decided we should buy a house and start our family etc - but your 'average' person is no more likely to be able to afford a house in California than Hawaii (darn real estate speculation & 'investment'). For some reason we thought it'd be a grand idea to move back to the mid-west to buy a house and be closer to family. In the process we have discovered that we're coastal people. The higher prices are worth the true 'cost of living' when it comes to happiness and compatible lifestyle. The midwest isn't a bad place to live - it's just not for us. I'll take sand and slower pace in trade for angry, rushed people any day of the week.
To balance out the artist husband, I've developed a niche in student affairs/misc. university administration. I've worked in Financial Aid for many years at universities in California and Wisconsin - and of all things noticed a recent posting at Kaua'i Community College's Financial Aid Office. I wouldn't go so far as to start using the f-word (...fate), but that was one excellent case of serendipity if nothing else. Even if that prospect doesn't come to fruition, the hubby and I are still eagerly looking into relocating to Kaua'i or perhaps Maui. Really, we'd be quite happy on either island, but the garden isle has particularly captured our hearts.
I look forward to learning a lot from everyone on here.
~cheers
Lindsay
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