Why exactly I'm apprehensive about relocating

[hmpf]

(aside from the fact that I can't really afford it, that is. ;-))

In 34 years, I've lived in seven different flats, in five different cities.

In every one of them, EXCEPT FOR THE ONE WHERE I LIVE NOW, I was slightly unhappy, always in a slightly different way.

It's very hard to move away from the only place in your life where you've felt completely at home in every way.

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[selenak.livejournal.com]

But you will relocate to the prettiest town in Germany! Also, Franconian food is both good and cheap. And we've got a good comic shop. I'm just saying.

Yeah, I know it's pretty.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

It's just... I'm spoiled, by having lived in Bockenheim for so long. Which isn't so picturesque, but does have some strikingly pretty corners, too - *and* offers me two organic supermarkets, three discounters, two 'normal' supermarkets, ten baker's shops of varying descriptions (from cheap to high-end), five Turkish grocery shops, five vegetable stands/shops, one Asian grocery shop, three really nice cafés (and a few okayish ones), and a pretty kick-ass second-hand DVD shop, all within an easy five minutes' walk. As well as three awesome, big parks, none of them farther than ten, fifteen minutes away by foot. As well as another two rather brilliant cafés, just three minutes away by subway. As well as the city centre of Frankfurt, with - among other attractions - yet another five cafés I love (did I mention I'm a café person? ;-)), two comic shops, 20-30 museums, an OV cinema with seven or so screens... all within seven minutes by subway. Etc. I'm used to this kind of infrastructure. I felt painfully cut off even in Hamburg, where I lived in a suburb.