Question about moving from a big city to a small town for a job

I got offered a job in a town called Millbrook about six months ago. It's a huge change from Chicago, where I've lived my whole life. I took it mostly for the money and a quieter life, but the reality hit me last week. I was trying to buy a specific type of coffee I always got back home, and the only grocery store here didn't have it. It sounds silly, but it made me realize how many little things I took for granted. The quiet is nice, but I miss the easy access to everything and the energy of the city. I'm stuck thinking if the lower stress and extra savings are worth feeling a bit isolated. Has anyone else made a move like this and found a way to make it work without going crazy?

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emmap1614d ago

That bit about the coffee is the whole story. It's never the big stuff that gets you, it's the tiny daily habits that vanish. I see this all the time with people who change jobs or even just routines. You trade one set of problems for another, and the new annoyances always feel sharper because they're fresh. The quiet and the savings are real, but so is the itch for that old rhythm. You basically have to build a new list of little comforts from scratch, which takes forever and feels stupid until it doesn't.

jones.mason14d ago

My old commute was 45 minutes each way. I never realized how much I used that time to just think and listen to music. Now I just walk downstairs and it feels like I'm missing a step in my morning.