Yeah, we're moving from Northeast Georgia to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. My hubs accepted a grand promotion and transfer to the kind of place we dream of retiring. We have long been the people of a "why wait" philosophy...why retire there when you can work there. He was offered the job on December 8, 2012. Thus, we have know for about a month. It has taken us that month for it to sink in as truth. Just a few days ago our definitive choice had words like "possibly" and "if" creeping in being smothered by doubt as we awaited communications from the big new boss. Early yesterday, my hubs received THAT phone call that buried our doubts. We are going to Saint Thomas and though our move date is not exact yet, we expect we will be flying to our new Island home in about six weeks.
But this blog is not going to be about his new job and all the decisions that we must quickly make to close out one house and open another (don't remind me that my Christmas tree is still up, along with the stockings on January 11, 2013). For the last month at least, we have scoured the internet for rental listings, videos, blogs, tourism and essentially overloads of information in an attempt to prepare us for the unknown of becoming "three new locals" (husband, 6 year old daughter, and me). In my focused attempts I have not been able to uncover any real information pertaining to moving my business or even doing business there. I have never been a blogger, but I am an information geek...so I accept this mission to fill the gap!
So you see, I am one of those independent representatives from a direct sales company. You know, home parties, catalogs, online orders, conferences, yada yada Ya-Ya! I know I am not the first to have this experience of taking an independent home business that you have been working on for almost four years and uprooting it to an entirely different community and culture. But like I said, I haven't been able to find anyone sharing that horror, so here we begin...life as three new locals.
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