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Courage To Leave Comfort: Moving to Oregon From Missouri
The time was right, we had to believe that
Thousands and thousands of my rides have started like this:
“What made you decide to move to Oregon?”
“Adventure,” I exclaim!
They persist sometimes, not satisfied by my off-the-cuff response. Some people ask, not because they want to fill the silence but because they genuinely want to know the answer.
When they press, I answer that it really was something as simple as a question. This guy we’d met in Springfield, MO, had moved to Oregon. One day on Facebook, he asked.
A Rhetorical Question
He was having to move because his landlord was selling the property he was renting. He was looking for roommates. The Pacific Northwest ain’t cheap.
We also had to move. Because our landlord was selling the property we were renting. We, on the other hand, we’re not looking for roommates. Southwest Missouri is cheap.
“Have you ever considered the Great Northwest?”
I had, but just briefly. My wife got accepted at The Art Institute of Seattle before we met. I would have followed her west. The asking price of the institute proved…
