Did moving to new place have intended effect?
The author has relocated multiple times for different reasons, including love, schools, and a desire to live in California. Each move has been beneficial for the author and their family, possibly due to their ability to adapt as an outsider. The author reflects on the unpredictability of relocation and its potential to be influenced by external factors such as economic recessions and pandemics.
- ▪The author relocated at ages 30, 40, and 54 for different reasons.
- ▪Each move was to a new location with little prior connection or community ties.
- ▪The author's experiences were shaped by significant events like the Great Recession and Covid.
- ▪The author views relocation as a leap into the unknown with unpredictable outcomes.
- ▪The ability to adapt as an outsider may have contributed to the author's positive relocation experiences.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191893 |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 11:22:36 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T11:34:57.550Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T11:35:01.125Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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I relocated when I was about 30 for love, then again around 40 for the schools, and the last time at 54 to live in California.Each has been good for me and my family.But, in no small part that is because I have always been an outsider. So moving has never meant giving up much of a support network, breaking strong community ties, abandoning a geography of happy memories, etc.Only the first move was to a place I had spent meaningful time before moving. The second move was to a town where I had spent a few hours for a fly-in/fly-out interview. The third was to an MSA I hadn’t been to within one desert and three mountain ranges of.Again, each has been good for us.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.