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Life Reset? Anyone else having these thoughts?

[b]Has life turned out the way you hoped it would when you still had hopes & dreams? Before life left you broken & jaded?[/b]
I'm just now starting a journey to try and "reset" my life.. start something new with new people in a new place, new life as much as possible.
Anyone else feel like they're ready to make BIG changes to your life and start almost all over? Im thinking BLANK slate except for maybe 5% of people you have to have contact with for me thats mainly family. Unfortunately I don't really have any friends. My best friend and pretty much only friend died at the end of June this year unexpectedly. Its brought on a lot of thoughts. I've decided to document it & my life on a social media site- see how far it actually goes, where "life happens" and ultimately do I end up happy & how long I stay in this state. I really want to be in the Midwest or West in a year, unless financial opportunities keep me here. Anyone from those areas and want to share about what its like there? I'm open to pretty much anywhere, my criteria is low cost & hopefully not *really small* lol I've lived in a small town and major cities, right now in the Southeast its kind of a "large city" it'll be a major city soon that I'm in. Large city or a mid sized city is probably my only second criteria.

I wonder how many more times this is going to happen to me as an adult before I'm at least stable & content hopefully somewhat happy..
[b]I never thought I'd be here at this age[/b]
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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Several resets, but probably not as big as you are considering. (Most would say that as a fourth-generation Californian ironically now living in the community his great-grandparents immigrated to in the late 1800s that I haven't reset at all!) There have been many resets along the way though: demographically (ranch in the middle of nowhere, rural small town, major urban city, and now suburbia); geographically (Sierra foothills, Central Valley, Bay Area, two years in Europe with the Army), educationally/professionally (sports writer, general reporter, public relations). And the biggest resets of all: single, married with children, empty nester, widowed, partnered again, widowed again. Life is a journey through constant resets.

As far was the West is concerned, any urban settings on the West Coast are not going to meet your low cost criteria, but there are still areas inland that may meet your needs.