This journey is one I would definitely take again but only to get it right. Keep in mind I’m only 34 years young. I haven’t really experienced life like a lot of other people considering the life I grew up having. We always have a roof over our heads and clothes to wear. We didn’t do family vacations, huge birthday parties, i went to small schools. I always had the desire to live bigger, to travel. To be able to make enough money to do what i wanted whenever i wanted. The first time I went to the beach I was 34 years old. My first flight was in 2020. Because I simply did not have enough money or maybe knowledge to experience life like I wanted to.
So, with that being said. I went out on a whim and moved to South Carolina. With my 2 teenagers. I heard how life changing a move can be, I was pressured to leave my hometown, all the reasons, I used those to move. I happened to have family who moved there so I had a support system just in case things went to shit.
And all I have for you is my experience and advice on what NOT to do. Eventually when I grow enough balls I’ll be telling this story in video form.
My Experience: Moving to another state was an absolute nightmare. From the moment we got to South Carolina it was bad. First of all the trip took 12 hours and it was supposed to be 9. Umm, my car died on the way there because my best friend left my car’s hazard lights on. So we arrived in a U-Haul with a dead car at midnight and had to stay at our family’s house the first night. So the next day, we meet with the landlord to sign the lease, go inside the house and the house is infested with roaches. Infested. I wasn’t going to sign the lease until he dealt with the problem. The landlord agreed to pay an exterminator and we proceeded to get the house bombed 3 times. We couldn’t move in for weeks. For weeks we slept in a camper in the backyard of our family’s house.
The cost differs, the bills are different the responsibilities and the laws are different. The people are different and for me this is very overwhelming, such a drastic change. I thought I would go and try to do Charlotte since I come from a city with skyscrapers and more people, maybe i wouldn’t feel so depressed but then i have to stop and think about my children and how they feel being uprooted to live in a hicktown with one traffic light. And then uprooted from there to live in another town where they don’t know anyone and have to make friends all over again. Then you have these people online who say you know, make yourself happy do what makes you happy, all things will follow, don’t worry about being selfish and i am being pulled in two different directions, ultimately I’ve decided that the children were more important… So I’ve decided to move them back home.
This is the point where I inform you about our GoFundMe, we’ve had it for a while and I’m probably not going to update it just so people judge me a little less harshly.
I want to get this post out and i will expound more as I blog more. thanks for reading my short note.