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This is my last summer here/home...

I can't do it anymore. I want a summer to enjoy and not do a million showings, but once fall comes, I'm done. I have been stewing over it for years to make sure I'm making the right choice. To be sure it's not just me running from the past, to be sure problems don't follow me. I've been patient where I wasn't before.

Now I know with certainty, I cannot make this work and I no longer want to try. I am now wasting my energy on people and places that are going nowhere. I am not living true to myself here. I am too often dishonest and evasive so that I can simply get by. This is not me.

It's strange because I love my home, I thought I'd never leave, but it's not my home anymore. It's been broken and destroyed. I cannot grow here. I cannot thrive. Nor can my child.

I am sad. But I want to feel joy again. I want to believe again and to get excited. I want a buildable future. I've been worried it was my own weakness and excuses that held me back. Now I see there is no potential here. I have to let go of my home. I do feel kicked out. The rich people and tourists own this place now. There's not much else I can do here that resonates with my personal goals.

Bleh.
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Sometimes that simple move away and placing yourself on the road is what you need. You talk of missing that time when it was just you, and your son, and travelling. I think some of us are just are born to be transient and looking for the next adventure. I've never been willing or able, always had a reason to hold myself back, work/family/love or name whatever reason. But I also know the meaning, I can call this place home if I truly want, and it's a sham those with more than you get to make you feel you are no longer welcome in your own home.
@awildsheepschase it has been a hostile takeover 😂 I guess I want home more than I realize or perhaps I just wanted this place to be what it used to when it can't. Either way, this doesn't work anymore. I think I can find a middle ground.
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
I think it’s a good move on your part plus if the demographic is changing you’re going to be priced out of your neighborhood. It’s a shame but I’ve seen it happening in other areas, mine is just the opposite. The manufacturing base that provided much is eroding. Makes it nice for fixed incomes but not a place to raise a family.
Degbeme · 70-79, M
I am totally baffled why that house hasn`t sold by now.
@Degbeme I sold it last year but I backed out. It wasn't a good deal and my real estate agent was disorganized. I would of been at a big loss. Now with Trumpflation it's going to be harder.

These rich people don't want some cool house in the woods. They want cookie cutters.
Degbeme · 70-79, M
@ScreamingFox I don`t blame you for not selling it if it meant a loss for you. I`d rather have a house in the woods than being around a lot of people and congestion.
@Degbeme you'd think that. It's almost four acres. The house is all fixed up and unique...

It's high class city people though. They only want to look better than their neighbors
Sevendays · M
You have to do what makes you happy!
It sucks watching some place you've always called home gradually change into something you don't recognize.
@robingoodfellow I've been living in the past, visiting the fragments that are left when I'm not the same either. Things change, I can't fight it.
You can't grow if you feel suffocated in a place that no longer fits you

 
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