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Geographical location affects you mentally?
Mental Health | Last Active: Apr 19 2:52pm | Replies (63)Comment receiving replies
Yes and I can’t mentally adjust to the current environment that I live. I grew up in northern Idaho, moved away and returned 30 years later to retire. After living there for 12 years, I decided to move due to the political environment and the challenges that came with the enormous population growth that occurred during the pandemic. To accommodate this growth, farmland was sold to build thousands of tract homes, multi million builds on riverfront and lakefront properties erased the beautiful views from local bike and walking trails and additional roads were constructed. A once known small sleepy area had transformed into one with increased traffic, crime, bigotry and created a huge gap in wealth. So I moved to Prescott, AZ hoping to experience a little of the colder weather as well as the warmer temps during the winter months. It’s been a challenge and one that I regret. I miss the mountains, the trees and real green grass and the political environment isn’t any better. So I’m back to looking elsewhere like Colorado or Oregon.
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After our older sister died in August of 2020 here in the PNW, her husband emptied out the house, sold it, and moved to Prescott as well. He rented a place while his "new" home was built, and then moved in when it was done. He moved away from his kids, his daughter lives here in WA. state, his son is in CA., and his older brother had just moved up here from L.A. at the time to be closer to him.
He's down there alone. Neither one of his kids are going to have kids of their own, so no grandkids in the future.
What's so special about Prescott, AZ. that makes a man bail out on his family like this?
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Interesting you are in Prescott and a friend did not like it and moved back to Montana and another family member moved to Colorado. The world is not anything like it was 20 years ago, and many are running away only to find that we have to face the consequences of our decisions. I hope everyone can rely on each other to get them through challenges of moving and change and then take a deep breath and look at our real motivation for moving. No place is perfect now, we just need to acknowledge our strengths and weaknesses and what is most comfortable for us person. It’s okay to make mistakes, we’re not perfect.