If you are in Baltimore I would keep the tank setup till you move and then move it with you to Baltimore after you have moved everything else. It is not that far of a drive and basically you get everything working in a day. Texas I would go with what Spotter said and keep all your equipment minus tank and sell the livestock. Or at least that is what I would do after reading all the responses.
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Moving to a different state..
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Praveen,
I think your first decision needs to be deciding where you want to go. I can give you some personal experience with Dallas, because when I was younger (early 20's), me and a couple buddies just up and moved out there. It was actually North Richland Hills, which is between Dallas and Ft. Worth, but close enough to be considered "Dallas" area.
It all started when my friend's girlfriend moved out there when her dad got transferred for work, and he talked me into driving out there to visit her for New Years. We were young, no steady jobs, and no responsibilities, so I agreed to take the adventure. It took us 24 hours of total driving time to get there. We only stopped to eat and get fuel, etc... taking turns driving and sleeping in the car.
We stayed at her parents home for about 10 days and we fell in love with the area. Her dad was some executive for a big textile company, so he was loaded and we were living in luxury for that trip so that definitely had something to do with it. Their house had a huge garden/sun room inside that was made for growing plants and trees, etc. This was a huge brick house (about twice the size of Dnov's to give some of you a perspective) with a 6-car garage, perfectly manicured lawn and landscaping, in-ground pool and hot tub, screened in porch, etc. What really amazed us was that he lived in a development with hundreds of these huge mansions... and there were a half-dozen or so similar developments in the same general area. Her dad drove us around to see some of the other houses they were considering buying before picking the one they got. The big kicker though was that these houses were in the $500k-$750 range (at least that's what he told us.) Coming from Cherry Hill, NJ area... a house like that back home couldn't be touched for under $1.5 million at least. Housing is (or at least was back then) much cheaper than it was around NJ.
As the visit went on, he was cooking us filet mignons wrapped in bacon on the grill, then after eating in the enclosed porch, we sat in the hot tub and stared at the waterfall feeding into it, etc. Other nights we had crabs and lobsters on the grill too. He was a big fan of the art of grilling and we enjoyed every meal. We also went out to a bunch of nice restaurants in the area on other nights.
There were tons of shopping malls and stuff close by too. The "Galleria" in Dallas is a huge mall with an Ice Skating Rink in it!
I think the thing that we loved the most though was the weather. It was January and we were wearing light clothes, no coats, and some days we even wore shorts and t-shirts. Put all that stuff together and you have a really great place to live.
It turned out that my friend was considering moving out there before we even got there... but experiencing all of this really pushed him over the edge. The last couple days there we checked out a couple of apartments just for kicks. We found one that was right across from a community college, and it only cost (back then) $260 p/month for a 2 BR apartment. The whole trip home, we convinced each other that we would move out there and start a new life!
Skip ahead to the end of February and we're driving back out there to move into that apartment. We even convinced another friend to join us, so it was 3 of us sharing a 2 BR apartment. We were young guys though and it wasn't a big deal for us. We made the living room into a BR and charged the 3rd guy $60 while we paid $100 each. The hard part for all of us was getting/keeping jobs. Since both of those guys had experience in the restaurant field (1 a waiter, 1 a cook) they both got jobs after putting in 100s of applications. I ended up just taking a job at a mini-mart (night shift) just to get something. I eventually got to know a certain customer who worked at the Hostess/Wonderbread factory and offered me a job doing inventory and stocking shelves at the store there. It was daytime hours and better pay, so I took it. Plus, this was in Dallas and I was excited to drive into the city every day for work. Things were going good for about 5 months until: a) my friend's girlfriend met a local and left my friend, and b) my roommates lost their jobs when the restaurant went out of business.
At that point, they both gave up on the experience and came back to NJ. I had considered staying there because I liked it so much... but being all alone across the country was not something I was willing to do. I was back home in 6 months and never regretted the whole experience. If things had gone better for my roommates, I'd probably still be there right now.
Anyway, sorry for the long winded story, but my point was that Dallas is a great place to live. I would definitely choose that over Baltimore. If you are going by yourself, the distance can be an issue with friends/family. But if you're going with a girlfriend/wife/family, it's a wonderful place to raise a family. The only negative is the stinking Dallas Cowboys.
I think your first decision needs to be deciding where you want to go. I can give you some personal experience with Dallas, because when I was younger (early 20's), me and a couple buddies just up and moved out there. It was actually North Richland Hills, which is between Dallas and Ft. Worth, but close enough to be considered "Dallas" area.
It all started when my friend's girlfriend moved out there when her dad got transferred for work, and he talked me into driving out there to visit her for New Years. We were young, no steady jobs, and no responsibilities, so I agreed to take the adventure. It took us 24 hours of total driving time to get there. We only stopped to eat and get fuel, etc... taking turns driving and sleeping in the car.
We stayed at her parents home for about 10 days and we fell in love with the area. Her dad was some executive for a big textile company, so he was loaded and we were living in luxury for that trip so that definitely had something to do with it. Their house had a huge garden/sun room inside that was made for growing plants and trees, etc. This was a huge brick house (about twice the size of Dnov's to give some of you a perspective) with a 6-car garage, perfectly manicured lawn and landscaping, in-ground pool and hot tub, screened in porch, etc. What really amazed us was that he lived in a development with hundreds of these huge mansions... and there were a half-dozen or so similar developments in the same general area. Her dad drove us around to see some of the other houses they were considering buying before picking the one they got. The big kicker though was that these houses were in the $500k-$750 range (at least that's what he told us.) Coming from Cherry Hill, NJ area... a house like that back home couldn't be touched for under $1.5 million at least. Housing is (or at least was back then) much cheaper than it was around NJ.
As the visit went on, he was cooking us filet mignons wrapped in bacon on the grill, then after eating in the enclosed porch, we sat in the hot tub and stared at the waterfall feeding into it, etc. Other nights we had crabs and lobsters on the grill too. He was a big fan of the art of grilling and we enjoyed every meal. We also went out to a bunch of nice restaurants in the area on other nights.
There were tons of shopping malls and stuff close by too. The "Galleria" in Dallas is a huge mall with an Ice Skating Rink in it!
I think the thing that we loved the most though was the weather. It was January and we were wearing light clothes, no coats, and some days we even wore shorts and t-shirts. Put all that stuff together and you have a really great place to live.
It turned out that my friend was considering moving out there before we even got there... but experiencing all of this really pushed him over the edge. The last couple days there we checked out a couple of apartments just for kicks. We found one that was right across from a community college, and it only cost (back then) $260 p/month for a 2 BR apartment. The whole trip home, we convinced each other that we would move out there and start a new life!
Skip ahead to the end of February and we're driving back out there to move into that apartment. We even convinced another friend to join us, so it was 3 of us sharing a 2 BR apartment. We were young guys though and it wasn't a big deal for us. We made the living room into a BR and charged the 3rd guy $60 while we paid $100 each. The hard part for all of us was getting/keeping jobs. Since both of those guys had experience in the restaurant field (1 a waiter, 1 a cook) they both got jobs after putting in 100s of applications. I ended up just taking a job at a mini-mart (night shift) just to get something. I eventually got to know a certain customer who worked at the Hostess/Wonderbread factory and offered me a job doing inventory and stocking shelves at the store there. It was daytime hours and better pay, so I took it. Plus, this was in Dallas and I was excited to drive into the city every day for work. Things were going good for about 5 months until: a) my friend's girlfriend met a local and left my friend, and b) my roommates lost their jobs when the restaurant went out of business.
At that point, they both gave up on the experience and came back to NJ. I had considered staying there because I liked it so much... but being all alone across the country was not something I was willing to do. I was back home in 6 months and never regretted the whole experience. If things had gone better for my roommates, I'd probably still be there right now.
Anyway, sorry for the long winded story, but my point was that Dallas is a great place to live. I would definitely choose that over Baltimore. If you are going by yourself, the distance can be an issue with friends/family. But if you're going with a girlfriend/wife/family, it's a wonderful place to raise a family. The only negative is the stinking Dallas Cowboys.
Nice read george. Sounds like an awesome adventurePraveen,
I think your first decision needs to be deciding where you want to go. I can give you some personal experience with Dallas, because when I was younger (early 20's), me and a couple buddies just up and moved out there. It was actually North Richland Hills, which is between Dallas and Ft. Worth, but close enough to be considered "Dallas" area.
It all started when my friend's girlfriend moved out there when her dad got transferred for work, and he talked me into driving out there to visit her for New Years. We were young, no steady jobs, and no responsibilities, so I agreed to take the adventure. It took us 24 hours of total driving time to get there. We only stopped to eat and get fuel, etc... taking turns driving and sleeping in the car.
We stayed at her parents home for about 10 days and we fell in love with the area. Her dad was some executive for a big textile company, so he was loaded and we were living in luxury for that trip so that definitely had something to do with it. Their house had a huge garden/sun room inside that was made for growing plants and trees, etc. This was a huge brick house (about twice the size of Dnov's to give some of you a perspective) with a 6-car garage, perfectly manicured lawn and landscaping, in-ground pool and hot tub, screened in porch, etc. What really amazed us was that he lived in a development with hundreds of these huge mansions... and there were a half-dozen or so similar developments in the same general area. Her dad drove us around to see some of the other houses they were considering buying before picking the one they got. The big kicker though was that these houses were in the $500k-$750 range (at least that's what he told us.) Coming from Cherry Hill, NJ area... a house like that back home couldn't be touched for under $1.5 million at least. Housing is (or at least was back then) much cheaper than it was around NJ.
As the visit went on, he was cooking us filet mignons wrapped in bacon on the grill, then after eating in the enclosed porch, we sat in the hot tub and stared at the waterfall feeding into it, etc. Other nights we had crabs and lobsters on the grill too. He was a big fan of the art of grilling and we enjoyed every meal. We also went out to a bunch of nice restaurants in the area on other nights.
There were tons of shopping malls and stuff close by too. The "Galleria" in Dallas is a huge mall with an Ice Skating Rink in it!
I think the thing that we loved the most though was the weather. It was January and we were wearing light clothes, no coats, and some days we even wore shorts and t-shirts. Put all that stuff together and you have a really great place to live.
It turned out that my friend was considering moving out there before we even got there... but experiencing all of this really pushed him over the edge. The last couple days there we checked out a couple of apartments just for kicks. We found one that was right across from a community college, and it only cost (back then) $260 p/month for a 2 BR apartment. The whole trip home, we convinced each other that we would move out there and start a new life!
Skip ahead to the end of February and we're driving back out there to move into that apartment. We even convinced another friend to join us, so it was 3 of us sharing a 2 BR apartment. We were young guys though and it wasn't a big deal for us. We made the living room into a BR and charged the 3rd guy $60 while we paid $100 each. The hard part for all of us was getting/keeping jobs. Since both of those guys had experience in the restaurant field (1 a waiter, 1 a cook) they both got jobs after putting in 100s of applications. I ended up just taking a job at a mini-mart (night shift) just to get something. I eventually got to know a certain customer who worked at the Hostess/Wonderbread factory and offered me a job doing inventory and stocking shelves at the store there. It was daytime hours and better pay, so I took it. Plus, this was in Dallas and I was excited to drive into the city every day for work. Things were going good for about 5 months until: a) my friend's girlfriend met a local and left my friend, and b) my roommates lost their jobs when the restaurant went out of business.
At that point, they both gave up on the experience and came back to NJ. I had considered staying there because I liked it so much... but being all alone across the country was not something I was willing to do. I was back home in 6 months and never regretted the whole experience. If things had gone better for my roommates, I'd probably still be there right now.
Anyway, sorry for the long winded story, but my point was that Dallas is a great place to live. I would definitely choose that over Baltimore. If you are going by yourself, the distance can be an issue with friends/family. But if you're going with a girlfriend/wife/family, it's a wonderful place to raise a family. The only negative is the stinking Dallas Cowboys.
Thanks guys. Now it all depends if I can convince my family to come with. If so, we can get a bigger place and I can set up my tank.
George, I really appreciate the story. I visited Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio with a few of my fraternity brothers a couple years back. I remember running into similar neighborhoods as you mentioned. The houses there are insane! It was an amazing experience. I am leaning towards Dallas since I would love to get away from New England weather. Luckily, I have until November to decide. My new main concern is wearing all my NYG and Knicks fan gear around! I went to Boston a few years back and caught a Knicks and Celtics game. Of the several thousand people in the stadium, I believe we were the less than 1% wearing Knicks jerseys. People boo'ed us, threatened us, etc. It was great lol.
Mike is dead on. Im only 35 but if I had not made a major decision to just up and leave England when I was 18 I wouldn't have the life I do today. You gotta do this stuff while you don't have kids etc. Its a lot harder to move when you have your own family etc.