New England
January 6, 2010Now this is something I haven’t talked about a whole lot. In fact, few people know of this desire that I have. A desire that came out of nowhere. A desire hindered by several obstacles I won’t be able to overcome.
For reasons unknown to even myself, I’ve gotten this idea in my head that I want to move to New England (CT, perhaps?). I haven’t ever even been there, so this desire makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There are so many obstacles blocking this desire that it makes little sense to even take it seriously - I’m happy where I am now, I get homesick quickly, and moving to the US would mean taking a few rather large steps backwards in civilisation compared to The Netherlands.
Most of all, however, I can’t leave because I’d miss my parents, my best friend, and my other friends. How in the name of fcuk can I leave any of them behind?
This whole thing just doesn’t make any sense. I’m attributing it to a case of late onset idiocy; I never went through a rebel phase when I was a teenager because… Shall we say, more serious concerns demanded my attention between the age of 8 and 20. I guess this is some lame pathetic attempt by my psyche to catch up.
Jesus Fcuk, I can barely spell “Connecticut”.
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I am from CT. I lived there from birth until I was 18. It’s beautiful, it’s a nice place for a family, and its’ close to a lot of cool places.
But why would you want to live there? Just go visit for a day, and then go to New York.
Comment by Adam S — January 7, 2010 @ 12:49 am
Well, New England seems to make more sense than Iraq, which is where I sometimes think about moving to… :) That said, I have a reason behind my seemingly absurd fantasy: A few years ago I had the pleasure of working with a girl from Iraq - a refugee from the war - and she was without a doubt one of the nicest people on Earth. And very VERY good looking too. But unfortunately married already. :( So the logic here is that perhaps there are more girls like that in Iraq… Oh well, one can dream, right…?
Comment by Jani — January 7, 2010 @ 3:46 pm
Why not just take a vacation there & see what it’s like. BTW, a good friend of mine moved several states away a few months back. Just got the email yesterday that him & his wife are moving their family back here. Being away from friends and family was too much.
Comment by John S. — January 12, 2010 @ 6:33 pm
Move to New Hampshire and join the Free State Project.
Comment by mikesum32 — May 19, 2010 @ 11:04 am
I accomplished some sort of what you want. I even married a woman in the country I moved to. It was something that brought a great amount of experience and pain. The experience part was that it helped me to finalize the growth I had to achieve to become a man without leaving any infant traces. The painful part was that I found out that I could have achieved all this without having to go and do one of the stupidiest things in life: exile and struggle. Today I think, no, I could have done better. But something tells me that, unless I experienced it, I would never reach this level. Well, this is past me now, for about 9 years. I am back in my own country and happy. No matter how messed up your country is, in terms of civilization, mankind is the same… there will be shootings, mass killing, suicide everywhere. Some unwrittenable things are just seen in exile.
By the way, Netherlands defeated Brazil today. Reconsider staying. :-)
I would think about a vacation trip or a B Plan in case things really go bad in 6 months time. (I didn’t have a plan B).
Comment by Jason Bourne — July 2, 2010 @ 7:07 pm
Maine, FTW.
Comment by MasterSplinter — October 18, 2011 @ 7:11 pm