Actually, moving was very easy. I just decided one day I had enough of NY government and the lousy weather and moved a family and a business, leaving behind all my brothers and sisters and elderly father. Put the house on the market and called the movers. Easy peasy.
But you have to have crossed a pain threshold to do that. Sounds like you are below that level so no point in moving for you. I respect that.
What I am saying is things always seem to be a bigger deal in our minds until we actually do them. After we moved, my son's best friends moved from NY to SC in less than 2 years later, as well as their parents.
Very true!
I moved from Houston to Sante Fe, NM a few years ago. Houston was turning into a cesspool, i have no idea why anyone would live there. It has good jobs, that's about it. Horrible weather, terrible people and ran by a bunch of Liberal morons. All my friends and family are there, well most of them.
Found a job in Sante Fe, packed up my shit and left. The company i moved to paid for my move completely and my first months expenses.
I now live in one of the most beautiful places in America. Only 80k people. Very little crime, it's quiet and people are friendly. I can go snow skiing and fly fishing the same day within 1 hour from my house. Live in the mountains 10 miles outside of town. It's paradise to me.
Should have done it years ago, but always had an excuse.
Only down sides are the job market for Engineering is almost zero, but i work for a company that is based out of Texas and i'm in there satellite office. Other downside is this is City is very Liberal, but it's all rich white retired people. So it's not that bad.
New Mexico is like Texas, the rural areas are all conservative and the Cities are all Liberal. It balanced out.
My parents are still in Houston, but they have a vacation house 2 hours north of me in the mountains. So i get to see them a lot. Everyone who comes here falls in love with it. But NM is a very poor and impoverished State, mainly due to how it's been governed the last 20-30 years. It could be Texas 2.0 if they wanted it to be.