is moving very hard for you?

@savypat (20216)
United States
March 29, 2010 12:30pm CST
When you have to move into a different home is it very difficult? Is change of location hard? I am not attached to things, so moving while hard work doesn't bother me, in fact I find it exciting. Hubby hates change, as a child he moved many times, his family was military and they got transferred often. So now he hates to relocate. How do you feel about this?
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@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
30 Mar 10
i think i have lived in 6 or 7 houses and places in the city in just ten years. i really hate the thing of packing and unpacking all things, do it again and again for so many times. another one i hate is the trucking, you will spend some bux just to move your things. it could be fine if the truck can load all the things and move it the another place in just one trip. but how about if it will take two or three. charges to move things depend on how many times the truck will go to such place and so on.
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30 Mar 10
I've only ever moved one time (officially) and I never want to do it again as I found it one of the most stressful things ever! It was a house exchange so as I was moving into their house they were moving into mine so we were were literally having to move each others home room by room. It was a case of dumping everything in boxes aptly labelled into the rooms they belonged and then after the stress of all the carrying and lugging of boxes and bags we then had to unload everything. I think I slept on a camp bed that night! .... never again!
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• United Arab Emirates
29 Mar 10
It's very hard because a different environment
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• United Arab Emirates
29 Mar 10
So it means new people,new life it's so hard
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
30 Mar 10
I like moving, and I find it exciting to decorate a new house. explore a new area, meet the new neighbours etc I haven't always felt this way. When I was a child my parents moved a lot, and I didn't like it. I was sad when I had to leave my friends, the house, the garden and everything else, and I decided that I was never going to move when I became an adult. Now I am a adult, and the funny things is I move even more than my parents did. My father has always loved changes, and that is one of the reasons why we moved so often. Now I feel the same way, I also love changes and new experiences.
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• Netherlands
30 Mar 10
Well, I don't think most people enjoy moving. We are just too attach to our surroundings. Plus you've got to adapt to the new location and that can always be a hard emotion to go through, especially if you do not know anyone there. For working people (workaholics) that is not the case though, I believe. I don't even think they create attachment to each place they move in to.
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@sy88xo (8)
• United States
29 Mar 10
I hate moving, not so much because of the new location but because of having to pack everything and unpack everything. To find a new place for it all to go, but I've moved a lot in my life and that might be why I never want to do it again.
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@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
30 Mar 10
i agree with you, moving is really uncomfortable to me too. i also hate moving so often. just in my experience, in just ten years, i have lived in about 6 or 7 houses from different places in the city. i hate packing and then unpacking and then moving and go on again and again.
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@paopao11 (10)
• Philippines
30 Mar 10
if i do have a choice well i might choose to live where i want to stay, but if im in a situation having no choice well i will just simple ride on the flow and let what will happen next in order to make this situation easier for me..and it wont take pressure...
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@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
30 Mar 10
yes it is actually... i don't like the packing, unpacking and cleaning stuffs when i have to move... it is just too tiring and too much work for me... fortunately, i had bought my own house now and i hope that i don't have to move again in the long time to come... i had stayed in my current house for almost 3 years now and many more years to come (hopefully)... :-) take care and have a nice day...
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
30 Mar 10
I grew up moving all the time and so it's not emotionally hard for me but I still hate doing it. We've been in our apartment for 4 years now and I'm really comfortable now. I'd hate to have to move now. [b]**AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~[/b]
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
30 Mar 10
It is hard to lead a nomadic life. The part that I hate most is the packing and unpacking of things. I am doing just that right now. I have sold my property where I have stayed for 27 years recently and I have accumulated a lot of things throughout the years. There seems to be no ending to packing. Presently I love relocated to some distance away and only come back once in a while to do bit by bit of the packing and transporting them to my in-law's store while waiting for my new house to be completed.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
30 Mar 10
Moving really doesn't bother me that much. I like to have things change. I like the new experience and adventure, even if sometimes I am way over my head. My husband is also like your husband in that he does not like change. My husband has only moved three times, one was when we moved in with a family member to help the family member and ourselves out. He had a hard time adjusting to the situation. We ended up moving back in with his parents though, and he is happier here I think. I actually talk to him quite a bit from time time about moving, to kind of get him used to the idea. I am going to let him be the front man on a lot of the decisions when we do move because I know it would make him feel better. I have moved a few times, mostly back and forth from one place to another.
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@mareca11 (212)
• Philippines
30 Mar 10
I think it's really hard to move because you're into this new atmosphere and new environment. You have to get along with your new neighbors, your sons and daughters would have to meet new friends and I think that's difficult for a child. Adjusting is maybe the reason why people don't want to leave. But sometimes it's not really a choice.
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@bulastika (5966)
• Philippines
30 Mar 10
Yeah its really difficult to change from one place to another. Like me who always feel comfortable living in one place and not moving much. But because we live in an apartment. We move from one apartment to another every two to five years. So its really frustrating to be in a new place again and again.
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@kaylachan (58284)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Mar 10
I have mixed feelings about it. I haven't done it often, but often enough. I always stress out during the processes, but once its over i'm a lot more relaxed and I don't really think back on the previous place. Last major move I did I hadn't returned, and don't care to.
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@Cutie18f (9551)
• Philippines
30 Mar 10
Whenever I think of the prospect of moving or transferring to another place, I automatically get sick---I have fever, etc. and I have to stay in bed. The prospect of moving really makes me weak. I hate it. It's a lot of work and so tiresome!
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@GardenGerty (157674)
• United States
29 Mar 10
Moving would help me detach and declutter, but I never do it. I am very much rooted where I am. It would take a really special offer to cause me to move. You cannot find a place to live as inexpenxive as where I am, but I have been here twenty five years. I have helped plenty of people move, but I think as I plant things around, my roots go down deep and I just stay where I am.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
29 Mar 10
I have moved a lot, so it doesn't bother me. I just recently (almost a month now) moved into a new place, well new to me. I moved 5 times just last year. The major move was from Pennsylvania to Virginia (stayed with my daughter for 4 1/2 months) then to Texas. The part I don't like about moving is the packing. The unpacking is fun to me, getting things arranged in a new place and getting settled in. The town I recently moved to I actually lived in 18 years ago, so somewhat like coming back home.
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
30 Mar 10
Hey pat! When I was a kid I had to move quite a bit! It wasn't so much that it was big moves, because it was pretty much in the same area for the most part except when I had to move from Long Island back to Yonkers when my parents got separated for the first time. But, we did move quite a bit when my parents got back together and separated again. I never felt like I really had a real home until I moved into my apartment now where I have been living for almost 30 years! This is the only place that I have every really felt was my home!
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@silvercoin (2101)
• Lithuania
29 Mar 10
Moving is hard for me, it's almost impossible.I create a very strong bonds with everyone and everything around.If moving was as good as traveling, but it's not.I just find it difficult to say goodbye to places and faces I used to know.So,I'm more like your hubby.
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• China
30 Mar 10
it often means torture while moving, you need to adapt to anything new. however, if staying the same place for a long time, it will be borning and you will lose many different experiences, anyway, i prefer to move in a certain time.
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@engrdng06 (248)
• Japan
29 Mar 10
yes it is somewhat difficult. From setting up another home, adjusting with the city, the people around you, the standard of living and many moere adjustments. Sometimes it takes a long time to get adjusted.
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