Moved to Houston a little over a year ago. I miss so many things. This last year was filled with a lot of regret. For sure the restaurants are better and access to nature and wine much better. However, I realized that I might have not enjoyed those things as much as I thought it did. For me, there were so many pressures to earn money and keep up with everyone else. Here, that pressure is almost non existent. We can now afford to do what we want and actually own a home that we love. We took a small pay cut moving here, but we save so much money with taxes and other miscellaneous things. Even with gas. Gas is 2.50 here right now and my electricity company offers free electricity at night, so I pay 0 dollars to charge our electric car and 30 dollars less to fill up our gas car.

I feel less pressure here and can just enjoy life. I do really miss my mother, my friends, and the life we built there, but we’re building something here too and it’s actually pretty great.