Pros and cons of moving

On Thursday we fly to Toledo, so that on Friday we can sign all the paperwork and buy our house. We didn't technically have to be there; the real reason I'm going is because I want to take another look at the house again-- not because we're going to back out, but because I don't remember the interior very well at all, and it was (ironically) one of the few houses that I didn't videotape on our house-hunting trip.

We're not actually moving until June. Packers are coming on June 1st (Jen's a big shot and gets a moving allowance-- yay!), and then the truck comes on June 2nd to load. It takes the truck at least 4 days to get to Toledo (union rules), so we're going to take four days to drive to Toledo in our '94 Ford Taurus (assuming it doesn't fall apart halfway there). Doing it in four days means we only drive 4 hours a day, which hopefully will be light enough to keep Miriam and Jen from going out of their minds.

As eager as I've been to escape Dallas, I'm starting to get nervous about Toledo: will I like the house? will it feel "big enough"? Will I like the neighborhood?

I thought a useful exercise would be to list the things I'll miss about Dallas, and separately, the reasons I'm looking forward to moving.

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