Hey guys, I moved away from home and I miss it every day.
Is anyone in the same position or had the same experience and what helped? Now that we bought the house and have a debt I can’t easily get back to where I came from in the near future. Lucky enough though it’s only a 8 minute drive (the town I use to live in is about 5 miles away from where I live now).
I think a big part of my thoughts circling is that I grew up in the other town and know all the people and in the town I now live in I barely know anyone… I can’t explain they aren’t unfriendly, infact most are welcoming and friendly, but have different interests than I do.
My old town had a nice lake that was a 5 minute walk. Now I can’t even walk to the lake anymore and even by bike it is about 30 minutes away.
Forgive my ignorance…but if it’s only an 8 minute drive, why can’t you continue to visit your old haunts?
Lucky enough though it’s only a 8 minute drive (the town I use to live in is about 5 miles away from where I live now).
Wait, what?
Shit, man, I live a full day’s drive from where I grew up. You’re still almost in the same neighborhood.
8 minute drive is still quite close. I’m 45 min from my first place, much harder to get to.
8 minutes? You’re still basically in the same town!
I moved from my hometown to one that is a 5-6 hour drive away. It’s not a big deal. You find new places to hang out, new places to walk, new people to hang out with.
Three months ago I moved from a comfy suburb in Illinois to a podunk town in Connecticut. I used to be able to walk out the door and go jogging even late at night to and around the nearby park. Now it’s just woods and rundown roads with no sidewalks outside my house.
To make it extra challenging, the house we bought is a fixer-upper so even the living conditions inside were hard. We’re slowly making it better, but there were many tears shed as I adjusted.
What helped is to keep busy. I got a job and just focused on one thing at a time. We still have a long way to go with the house, and I’ve gained 15lbs not being able to run outside, but I’m in a better place mentally as at least now I can cook, there’s a clean bathroom to take a bath and shit in, and I can finally do laundry with my own washer. It’s the little things that I cling to.
Can’t you make it your mission to hack a path into the woods that allows you to run?
