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Topic: Once a New Yorker...
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authenticnow
♀ 16024
Member # 16024 |  Posted: 6:20 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 |     |
Three years ago we moved from NY to PA. Mostly to escape the taxes, and just for a fresh start. We bought a nice house in a rural area and it's been pretty nice here except it has never really felt like home.
LD's commute doubled when we moved and it's 80 miles each way. I was able to keep one of my NY jobs and get another local part-time job.
LD's sister was very sick last year and we've been feeling the distance from our family. Life's too short, we're learning.
We started talking about what it would be like to be back in NY and one day we just said, Hell, let's just do it!
So....we bought a townhouse about 6 miles from SIL and an hour away from my brother and his family (as opposed to 2.5 hours now). We'll be downsizing in order to not get killed by the taxes. But, we're happy!!! It's happening very quickly.
Always NYers in our hearts and now we'll be back home in about a month. I'm still processing all this, freaking out a little bit, but happy to be going 'home'.
Now, does anybody want to buy a beautiful home in rural PA? 
Happiness is an inside job. ---William Arthur Ward
Posts: 40947 | Registered: Sep 2007 |
Williesmom
♀ 22870
Member # 22870 | | Posted: 6:25 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
I already have a home in rural PA!
So happy for you both.
You can stuff your sorries in a sack, mister. -George Costanza
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. - Madeleine Albright
Posts: 7995 | Registered: Feb 2009 | From: Western PA |
nowiknow23
♀ 33226
Member # 33226 | | Posted: 6:27 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
A month?!? Holy cats, that's fast. Congratulations! 
You can call me NIK
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
― Pema Chödrön
Posts: 28395 | Registered: Aug 2011 |
authenticnow
♀ 16024
Member # 16024 | | Posted: 6:27 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Williesmom, Do you want another one? 
NIK, I know! Things are moving along, which is good, but I'm freaking out a little bit!
Happiness is an inside job. ---William Arthur Ward
Posts: 40947 | Registered: Sep 2007 |
jrc1963
♀ 26531
Member # 26531 | | Posted: 6:30 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
I wondered why the wine glasses were "packed away" in the NYE thread in F & G!
Congratulations on your new digs and move!!
Me: BSO - 46
Him: FWSO - 69
DS - 13
D-Day - 12-11-09,
R - he finally came home
Your life is an Occasion. Rise to it. - Mr. Magorium, "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium"
Posts: 25027 | Registered: Dec 2009 | From: Florida |
authenticnow
♀ 16024
Member # 16024 | | Posted: 6:32 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Yep. I'd procrastinate until the last minute but LD is making me be productive. DD and I were drinking wine out of paper cups last week. I said, 'I'm sorry DD, dad packed away all the wine glasses.' She said, 'Mom, I'm in college, this is the only way we drink wine!' 
ETA Thanks, jrc! [This message edited by SI Staff at 6:32 PM, December 31st (Tuesday)]
Happiness is an inside job. ---William Arthur Ward
Posts: 40947 | Registered: Sep 2007 |
MovingUpward
♂ 14866
Member # 14866 | | Posted: 6:33 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Oh I think your PA house should become the SI Party House
AKA Moo
Think of the haters in your life as sandpaper; they’ll scratch you up time and time again but in the end you’re polished, smooth, and spotless..while they end up useless
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Posts: 53990 | Registered: Jun 2007 | From: Big Blue Nation |
authenticnow
♀ 16024
Member # 16024 | | Posted: 6:34 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
It really is a good house for entertaining. If we don't sell it we might have no choice. We'll just charge admission.
Happiness is an inside job. ---William Arthur Ward
Posts: 40947 | Registered: Sep 2007 |
Gottagetthrough
27325
Member # 27325 | | Posted: 6:54 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Good for you!! =) Congratulations!!
Posts: 1474 | Registered: Jan 2010 |
persevere
♀ 31468
Member # 31468 | | Posted: 7:01 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
How exciting for you an!!! What do the kids think about all this? 
Me: BW-44
Him: XWH-44
DDay:2011
Status: D 2011
Above all, be the heroine, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling
Posts: 4845 | Registered: Mar 2011 |
authenticnow
♀ 16024
Member # 16024 | | Posted: 7:09 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Both kids hated the new area. It's far from everything. DS is on his own now (permanently, God willing he'll keep his shit together and be able to sustain it).
DD is away at school and we moved right when she graduated HS so this never felt like home. She's thrilled because we'll be in a great spot so she can travel to see her boyfriend and the friends she's made in college. Also, when she gets a job after she graduates, this is a great commuter location.
They grew up close to the area we're moving back to so this just makes them happy. There's really no connection here for them. [This message edited by SI Staff at 7:13 PM, December 31st (Tuesday)]
Happiness is an inside job. ---William Arthur Ward
Posts: 40947 | Registered: Sep 2007 |
SisterMilkshake
♀ 30024
Member # 30024 | | Posted: 7:26 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Congrats and how exciting, adventurous and fun, an.
I thought this topic was about something else. I was going to agree and tell you that these Minnesotans really don't know what to make of this New Yawk transplant.
BW (me) 50ish FWH 50ish
Married 34 years, 3 children
d-day 3/10 LTA (4 yrs./fucking & flirting)
"Oh, why do my actions have consequences?" ~ Homer Simpson
"She knew my one weakness: That I'm weak!" ~ Homer Simpson
Posts: 10515 | Registered: Nov 2010 | From: The Great White North USA |
authenticnow
♀ 16024
Member # 16024 | | Posted: 7:44 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
I didn't know you were a New Yawka!!!
Happiness is an inside job. ---William Arthur Ward
Posts: 40947 | Registered: Sep 2007 |
painfulpast
♀ 41038
Member # 41038 | | Posted: 8:05 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Congrats!! There really is no place like home. Are you in Manhattan? I spent a few months there some time ago - really liked it, but like you, it wasn't home so it never felt 'right'.
Mom, I'm in college, this is the only way we drink wine!
This may be the best thing I've read all year, and there's only 3 hours left for something to beat this!!!
Posts: 2027 | Registered: Oct 2013 | From: East Coast |
authenticnow
♀ 16024
Member # 16024 | | Posted: 9:17 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Yeah, she's a clever one .
Happiness is an inside job. ---William Arthur Ward
Posts: 40947 | Registered: Sep 2007 |
Sad in AZ
♀ 24239
Member # 24239 | | Posted: 12:57 AM, January 1st (Wednesday), 2014 | |
Wow; I was also wondering why your wine glasses were packed! That's great! You're going to get a reputation like mine with all these moves, you know...
Congratulations!
May your 2015 be more FUCK YEAH! than fuck this
Posts: 21018 | Registered: Jun 2009 | From: Upstate NY |
AFrayedKnot
♂ 36622
Member # 36622 | | Posted: 8:06 AM, January 1st (Wednesday), 2014 | |
Awesome!!!
BS 40
fWS 37 (SurprisinglyOkay)
DD DS
A whole bunch of shit that got a lot worse before it got better.
"Knowing is half the battle"
Posts: 2744 | Registered: Aug 2012 |
Deeply Scared
♀ 2
Member # 2 | | Posted: 8:11 AM, January 1st (Wednesday), 2014 | |
Your home in PA is so lovely, I doubt you'll have any problems selling it.
I'm so excited for you all...what a great way to kick in 2014!!!
"Don't give up, the beginning is always the hardest." My Mom:)
My tolerance for stupid shit is getting less and less.
Posts: 201033 | Registered: May 2002 |
authenticnow
♀ 16024
Member # 16024 | | Posted: 8:29 AM, January 1st (Wednesday), 2014 | |
Thank you, DS. We have someone coming to look at it this weekend and possibly another person interested in looking.
Happiness is an inside job. ---William Arthur Ward
Posts: 40947 | Registered: Sep 2007 |
Lucky2HaveMe
♀ 13333
Member # 13333 | | Posted: 8:53 AM, January 1st (Wednesday), 2014 | |
I wondered why the wine glasses were "packed away" in the NYE thread in F & G!
I wondered the same thing and thought I must have missed something... so I went SI stalking on AN's *recent posts* and found this one.
You sound really happy! I can hear the excitement in your posts. But let us remember the geography lesson re: the regions of NY. 
Happy for you!
Love isn't what you say, it's what you do.
Posts: 7071 | Registered: Jan 2007 | From: WNY |
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