Grass Is Greener

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I am not really sure what it is, but lately I have been thinking about moving. There’s nothing wrong with where we live. We couldn’t ask for better neighbors, we love our house, the town is great! We love Palmyra! It’s home.

But, there seems to be a restlessness in me.

We joke about moving, and having visited so many places, we have experienced many locations to choose from. I suppose the main thing that makes us want to move is the cost of living in NY. More than half of our monthly mortgage payments is our tax escrow payment. And it will only keep going up. Most of that is school tax, and we don’t even USE the schools. We only have to report everything we do, and then test in the schools… none of which I want to do. We opted out, so they should have no jurisdiction over us. I think. But, in NY… they do.

So, we’ve looked at the states that have the most lenient homeschool regulations as possibilities. We have looked at states that have nice weather (I mean cooler…) 🙂 We have looked near where we know family or friends are.

But, even with all of that, I don’t know if we will actually move. 🙂

I know that it is a bit of “the grass is greener on the other side” syndrome. Well, if we can just get out of these high taxes, things will be better. If we didn’t have the annoying regulations and laws of NY (not just homeschool… it’s the only state where it’s illegal to use a cell phone in your hand while driving, and more…) we’d be better off. If we didn’t have such high costs of gas and energy and sales tax and thruway tolls and on and on… we’d have more money.

I am not sure all of that is true. But it is what we’re thinking.

Stay tuned for further developments.