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March 30, 2006
Indecision
We’ve know we were going to move for maybe a month now, and I can’t say as I’ve really gotten much done. Without having a house to move into or a firm moving date, there’s not a lot I can do. I could be packing, I suppose, but a good half of our stuff is still packed from the move up here. We’re using a good bit of the rest of it. I have been going through everything I can get to and getting rid of things we don’t use anymore, or won’t use in the warm, sunny South.
What I have been doing is rethinking the decision to move, over and over again. We’re giving up a lot, here. My family, some old and many new friends. This rural-in-a-city lifestyle that I love the theory of but has been driving me slowly but persistently insane. The cold.
Oh, wait. Now it’s coming back to me!
Temperature seems like such a shallow reason to move, but the climate in Texas leads to a lifestyle that I love.
After I wipe the tears away, I start rethinking our choice of city. This is where I start feeling the acid eating away at the lining of my stomach. Austin, Dallas and Houston are the top three. Eliminating Dallas was relatively easy – no family, few friends, neither of us had any real desire to live there. Austin and Houston, well, I’ve lived in both places, and enjoyed both. I have incredibly good friends in Austin, Rex’s family is in Houston. It came down to job prospects, both Rex’s company’s future contracts, and backup work for Rex, should he get laid off. Houston is just better for the jobs. I feel a real pull towards Austin, though, so I’m still not secure in this decision.
We’ll be flying to Houston this weekend to hunt for houses. I keep balancing the terror I feel at having to find a house that I love enough to commit to for the next 20 years with the safety net of the tiny, short-term-lease apartment. Wish us luck!
Posted by me at March 30, 2006 10:10 PM