Moving ... AgainFollow

Yep. August 19th I moved from the Chicago area to Nashville, TN and now the time is coming in the next 3 months that I have to move again.

I'm NOT looking forward to this. If I was to live anywhere in the US, it wouldn't be FL by any means. I don't watch a lot of TV but when I do, usually Nancy Grace is on and all I see are the crazies in FL. I've seen FL jokes here and there while visting the OOT. I have a 2 year old (come Sunday) and I'm a little afraid.

Any of you guys live there? I would like to know what the area is like. I've tried searching the Internet but I'm not coming up with anything and I tried looking for toddler groups and entertainment (Gymboree Play & Learn) and both are at least 27 miles away!! That's unheard of.

From the map it looks like the closest location to my new place is Spring Hill. I'm still gonna be an hour from the beach (Gulf).

To add to this dreadful news is that I'll be living in a mainly 50+ area. I'm gonna be gated inside with a bunch of smellies.

Why do you have to keep moving around? That can't be easy, especially with such a little one.

It's a free ride. Tanya has paid my bills/rent/clothing anything you can possibly think of since we broke up (mainly because she loves Takeo). Now it's finally getting too much for her to pay ontop of all of her own stuff, including rent in Chicago. My mom just bought a house there and told me that I can go there for free to take some of the pressure off Tanya. I really don't want to go, but until I finish college or until he goes to school, I'll have to. Tanya's new GF has a cow when I spend the night, let alone go back to her house. /snickers.

It's not easy. He's lived in 2 homes in Chicago so this will be his 4th time moving.

Ugh. My rating went down. Hey it's like child support. We didn't go through the courts to make it easier on us both. We made him together. We just couldn't stay together. She doesn't want him in daycare




Edited, Mar 4th 2011 5:17pm by popcornshowers

I've just moved. I'll be moving to Scotland for the summer, and then either moving houses within the city or moving to Nottingham, Dublin or Cardiff in September/October.

I enjoy it for the most part, I mean I could at least skip the Scotland bit if I wanted to.


It must be a lot harder with a child, though.


As for Florida, the half year that I lived there was one of the least enjoyable times in my life.

I mean, I live in the middle of nowhere now, but the middle of nowhere in England is still much better than anything I've seen in FL.

Yeah, but I think the fact that NOTHING was within walking distance or accessible by public transport was the main problem. I can shut myself off from my environment pretty well, but I at least want a bookstore and a library, or broadband.

(I mean, nowadays I can keep myself occupied for weeks on a couple of PDFs, but my interests have changed, and it was just awful not being able to get anywhere. I thrive on travel, and stuff.)

She can see him anytime she wants. We use to go to lunch 3 times a week while she was at work and then everyday after work she'd stop by for an hour to visit. She has always had an issue with her new jealous GF though so it was all kept on the down-low. I didn't like that at all so I figured I'll move and get it out of my routine. To be honest, I kept thinking that I still had a chance to make us a family with all that sneaking around. Moving myself out of the situation where I'm 9 hours away from her had changed me completely and no, I'm not looking for someone new, at least I'm not waiting around anymore. She drove here 2 weeks after we moved to visit and was supposed to come to his 2nd B-Day party tomorrow but her new GF told her not to. She'll visit before we move to FL.





We've flown there twice and stayed at her house for 3 nights both times since he's still a Chicago Adkid and has a contract until August 2011. I knew she'd let us because, I mean, he's hers too, but it was a struggle at first. She was really afraid to tell her GF and they fight all the time about me.. which 99% I'm not even in the same state anymore. It's insane actually. I know they won't last.. I just don't know exactly when she'll get fed up enough. Right now she's in the stage of telling me "When I'm with my next GF.."


My free ride is taken for granted I'm sure. I get fussy when I have to move to places I don't want to.. This FL thing is killing me. I should be more mature and say, "Thank you." Yet those words haven't come out of my mouth yet. We just made 70 more friends moving to Nashville that are families brought here for kidney research and are all Japanese. Takeo LOVES them. He understands them and he loves their children. Now we have to pick up and move again ... to somewhere that's not guaranteed to have Japanese-speaking people and he'll be lost. It wasn't easy getting into that group. My child looks Asian to most Whites but to the Japanese they don't see it at all. If you know Japanese person, or their culture, it's not easy to start befriending them. I wish I was still in Japan. This would make it that much easier.

Someone gonna mail me Portillo's at least?? Can you believe it?! When you eat there you spend about $10 for 2 people.. Not bad at all... But when you try to get it shipped from their website, it cost $67 for just 8 sandwhiches!! Lol. Christ!