Looking back I tend to do this periodically in my life.
After graduating high school I sort of shocked my friends by not going to the Univerisity most of them were attending. It was ugly and flat and looked like a factory! Instead I found a school clear across the state with great old buildings (chock full o' ghosts!), huge oak trees, and lots of rolling hills and ponds.
Next, after a few years I said 'Fuggit' to teaching and living in Montgomery, AL. I quit my job and moved to Charleston, SC. After a couple of years teaching there I said 'Fuggit', quit my job and moved to the Florida Keys. After a couple of years of basically beach bumming and working in a music shop, I moved to Middle Tennessee to help my sister out with our parents, who were both very ill.
I was in Tennessee about fourteen long years when the wanderlust struck again. I quit my job I'd had all that time, cashed in my retirement, and move to my current home of Savannah, Ga, where I'm loving it. In a few years.. who knows?
It's not the type of life I'd recommend to most. It helps to be unmarried and have no kids. Some folks tell me I've missed out on the best things in life (usually after they finish complaining about their current/ex spouse and how the brats are rotten and driving them crazy
) but it's a bit like being born without ears. If you never had 'em you don't miss 'em!
One thing I do regret is not keeping up with a lot of folks who were very important to me at different stages of my life. I admit I usually find it depressing when I do contact someone from 'the good old days' because they usually try to make me feel guilty about not being there anymore and then they start complaining about the same old stuff they were complaining about ten years ago!
