#7 Move to Texas

Ever since my dad moved us up north when I was 12, I have always dreamed of moving to a warmer climate. Me and the MN winters just do not go well together. Luckily, Chris spent a year living in Oakland, and his MN born and bred self learned the awesomness of warmer climates. So with that, we decided that after I was finished with law school we would head to a warmer climate. After doing some research about economies and living conditions we had settled on either Austin,TX or California. The cost of living innn California didn't quite match up with our goals (aka any house we would ever be able to afford would be TINY and we would be spending way too much of our income on it for our liking) so we settled on Texas. We later were convinced by our good friends Phil and Jill that we should move to Dallas instead, because that was where they were moving. It also turns out that Dallas is a much larger city and therefore would have more job prospects for us. So we decided on Dallas.

On our aniversary last year we discussed our goals for the next year. Chris and I are both looking at job changes and we had to decide what was more important to us: waiting around until we found our perfect jobs in Texas and then move, or look for any job just so we could get down to Texas. We decided that getting to Texas was more important than getting the perfect job right now. We knew that if we didn't go now, we would be perpetually stuck in MN. So in November, when I was coming up with this list, I put moving to Texas on there.

Now, as I am writing this in mid-Jan, Chris is in Texas having started his new job on Jan. 3rd! It only took him a couple of weeks to find a job, oh to be an engineer. It ended up being an excellent job where he will be able to use his old skills while developing the new ones that he has been working on, so it looks like we get the best of both worlds. Moving to Texas, and an awesome job for Chris! More pics to follow of the whole moving process and our new rental house in Texas!!

First item on the list almost fulfilled!