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Have moved interstate 4 times and overseas twice for work...
Later this year I'm going to buy an ELWB Sprinter van, fit it out as a stealth van, and drive around the country living totally off-grid for 2 to 5 years and work from my van... Plan is to build and move into a self-sustained tiny house...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Moved country to start a new job with a new employer. UK -> Qatar
Then changed employer as part of field license change, but kept my same job in Qatar, but different contract conditions, so had to move residence, went Qatar -> Cyprus for tax planning........I got to choose any country, as the original employer was responsible for the relocation costs.
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Since starting to work professionally, I've never moved back to where I was raised.
I've worked in London, Ontario, South Carolina and North Carolina.
For the last two, I was able to maintain the same residence and simply change the commute... I live close to the SC/NC border.
However, I recently started a new position where I am working from home, but will be relocated to the area my mother-in-law lives in (hence the 'moved home' - sort of). The position change and associated move are being prompted by my mother-in-law needing more help physical than we can provide where we live now.
The company I now work for was willing to take me on with the condition that I be able to relocate to her area; they do have a presence there, so it's not totally unrelated. When we do relocate, I will have the opportunity to work from home there as well.
Love the 30 second commute from the bedroom to the home office.
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I live in twin cities here which are very close to each other, it takes me 20 minutes on the motor bike to reach my office which is in other city. 
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After I graduated I got a couple of development jobs in fairly small companies. A couple of years later I was offered a job with a large software company who I knew of as they had a reputation for delivering high quality software. I moved my family to work nearer to this company and am still in the area to this day (despite having moved to a few other jobs since). In fact, my original company is 5 minutes walk from where I work now and I often see some of my old colleagues on my lunch break 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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1) I moved to Germany for a scholarship (and a lot of party too)
2) I moved within Germany (from north to south) for a better job
3) I partially moved within Germany (from south to west) for a job of my girlfriend, didn't drop my job (I had a 1-room apartment for work)
4) I moved within Germany (from west to south again) for a house within range of my wife's family after wedding, didn't drop my job (1 h drive single way)
5) We like where we live and it is a very good place to raise our kid(s), I changed job
Live is evolving, so there should always be changes... to choose what to change in each moment is the important thing
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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And won't move until the pay or job is so good that refusing would be stupid. For 4x my current wage or a job at Bethesda Softworks I would gladly move.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: job at Bethesda Softworks
Fanboi!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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CodeWraith wrote: Addicted!
FTFY.
I call it Bugthesda, I hate that they're pushing Skyrim everywhere instead of giving us a sequel, I despise their new focus on TES Online... but like an old married couple we've spent too much time together with too many fond memories, it's hard to break such a bond.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Many moons ago I went for an interview at Blue Byte[^], before they sold out to Ubisoft. That was may chance to get my foot into the door.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I search the job near to the home.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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I moved to different part of a city, moved within a state several times, moved to different state for my current job. I moved from over sea for work in the US. I build 3 brand new homes in the process.
Our current home was build on an 11 acres farm 8 years ago and I raise chicken, ducks, pheasants, quill, guinea hens and have three big greenhouses, but I never consider it a home. I've never felt any place in the US as a home. One day I will have to start all over somewhere. I admired some of the local folks here where their whole family and extended families were born and live within 20 miles without moving anywhere for the last 200 years.
modified 6-Feb-18 11:57am.
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In which state is your farm you located?
Leng Vang wrote: ... but I never consider it a home. I've never felt any place in the US as a home.
As the grandson of immigrants, I must fall back on my late elders:
Home is always where your heart is, even if the place no longer exists.
Various wars in Europe have demolished every place my ancestors ever called "home." And the culture has moved on. When my immigrant forefathers returned "home" to Europe — variously to Germany, Norway and the slice of Poland that once was "East Prussia" — for a visit, they each found that it no longer felt like home.
A few years back, I went back to my home town on Long Island, NY for a short visit. The buildings were still there, for the most part. The elementary school that was brand new when my sister attended it is now a sunken ruin, surrounded by a suburban neighborhood of mostly boarded up houses – they were built on sand fill and over the years the sand shifted, causing the buildings to tilt and sink. The old Baptist church, whose congregation was mostly elderly back in the day, is now abandoned and disused. All of the stores and hang-outs of my youth have different tenants now. The neighborhoods of shiny new modern suburban homes of my youth are now aged and out-of-date. The playgrounds that were always full of children are now empty and disused. All of my friends from school are gone – some died in Vietnam, car crashes, cancer or other causes; most of the rest moved to other places. Only one remained: she is single and now elderly, taking care of her now very elderly mother. My hometown was no longer "home" to me...
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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My job wasn't the reason we moved, but while it increased my commute from 25 to 30 miles one way, it cut my travel time from 1 hour down to 30 minutes due to different traffic patterns.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Many moons ago, I moved to Japan to work for a subsidiary of Seiko-Epson. I did it mostly for the adventure of living in a totally unfamiliar culture.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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... so you really had no choice but to move. Only moved to three different states though, then decided to separate from the military and stay put here in Florida. Been here 18 years now.
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Early in my career I moved to take a job within the state, as my rural home area didn't have much for IT jobs.
A few years later I moved again to an area with a better economy and far less snow. In both cases the wife & I decided where we wanted to try, and then found jobs there. We liked the last destination and have been here 20+ years through numerous jobs.
Friends and family have moved to places because of specific jobs. Sometimes that works out, and in some cases they absolutely hated where they moved to.
Moral of the story: Your job is only part of your life -- moves will be more successful if they are based upon your life's needs, not your job's needs.
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BryanFazekas wrote: Moral of the story: Your job is only part of your life -- moves will be more successful if they are based upon your life's needs, not your job's needs.
agree
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I moved to my basement for work.  Is that count?
Bryian Tan
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Not moved to another country but new job requires me to deploy in different country for 6 months.
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Always work from where I am. While job hunting my first filter is selecting my town
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Yes, I moved to different parts of the country, but it was when I was in the military, and not for computing jobs.
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First job out of college, I moved from New York to northern New Jersey. A few years and a few jobs later, I moved to central New Jersey to cut my commute. Fifteen years and a few more jobs later, an opportunity within the company I worked for moved me from New Jersey to central Texas.
When I sold my little suburban house on a third of an acre in New Jersey, I bought a small 20 acre ranch in Texas with a bigger house, barn and other outbuildings and had money left over. I now raise goats. I eliminated the state income tax (Texas does not have one, but New Jersey does) and my property tax dropped to 25% of what I was paying in New Jersey!
Now that retirement is closing in, I am thinking of selling the ranch to buy a larger ranch a hundred or so miles further west, but still in central Texas. From ranching, I will probably never retire. (Have you heard about how the farmers' and ranchers' retirement party begins?? The minister, with a very somber look, intones: "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together to celebrate the life of ..."  )
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
modified 5-Feb-18 11:19am.
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I have so far been blessed to be able to work where I am.
And always in some form or fashion in tech.
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To Note:
My moving were in a former a career not as a developer!!!
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