If it looks like Pandemic it will go on for months, we will accelerate our planned move to North Dakota (where wife is from). I sent a couple of resumes just fishing, heard back in 30 min. In Hawaii you can wait weeks to hear back.

@hawaiiboy funny, my wife and I have toyed with moving to Hawaii someday (where she grew up). Probably not any time soon, though.

@dejus That's Funny. I grew on O`ahu and have been on Hawaii Island for 30 years.

@hawaiiboy Why are you moving? To be closer to your wife’s family? My wife grew up on Oahu, but we prefer the Big Island. I know the usual reasons not to move there: more expensive stuff, harder to get to other states, “island fever”; those don’t bother us. Any other reasons we shouldn’t?

@dejus I grew up here, so I don't get island fever. I will miss it, but I can come visit here. Flights are always cheaper coming to Hawaii originating on the mainland, than starting here.

@hawaiiboy That’s interesting about flights, though I suppose makes sense, encouraging tourists to visit. As my wife said, if you do move, your first winter is going to be rather painful.

@dejus true that. My wife says it’s just layers. Where do you guys live?

@dejus we had to look at the move analytically and less emotionally.

@hawaiiboy it’s not just layers; the cold and rain will likely give you major seasonal affective disorder. She moved from Hawaii to Connecticut in January, and was sick the entire time. She was a navy brat, so moved a fair bit.

We’re in Oregon now. (I don’t know if you follow me; if not, I posted about our backstory today, to mark our 25th anniversary.)

One thing we like about the idea of moving to Hawaii is that it is halfway between the mainland US and New Zealand, where I’m from originally.

@dejus The rest of my family moved to the mainland years ago. My Dad was the last one here and he passed 2 years ago. My daughter is grown and lives in Honolulu. I am attached to the place and some good friends, but no family to hold me here.

@dejus I’m sure I’ll have challenges, but I'm a 220# former athlete and am thinking of it as an adventure. Having a job lined up will help. I've never really got to know my wife's family, her older brother can't wait till I get there.

@hawaiiboy A change can be fun. As I wrote in that post, my then-girlfriend moved from the US to NZ to be with me, and seven years later we moved to the US, in large part because she missed her family. Major moves. We’re getting itchy to move again, either to southern Oregon, Hawaii, or even NZ.

We have family in NZ and Seattle, so aren’t super-close to either; Hawaii would be halfway, closer to one, further from the other.