Moving to Dallas
As you may have previously read, I recently left my previous employer of 4.27 years and somehow managed to convince the kind folk at Telligent that I would be a good fit there. Well my wife and I decided that wasn't enough change for one family, and we should move across the country as well. This has actually been in the works for a while now, but I wanted to make sure family members and current/past co-workers knew before I announced it to the world (err, I mean my one reader) on this blog. Megan, Mackenzie, and I are moving from the tiny hamlet of Delaware to Dallas at the end of July!
Although it will be difficult moving away from our many good friends and family in the Philly area, we decided to move for several reasons:
- First, I will be able to work in Telligent's world-wide headquarters located in North Dallas. I am looking forward to being able to finally meet many of my co-workers in person for the first time and work with them in person every day.
- Second, Dallas is somewhere we would both like to live. It is one of the fastest growing and vibrant cities in the country right now, and amazingly housing prices there are still very cheap because of the large amount of open land. I have been looking at houses there, and we can get so much more for our money compared to the over-priced Delaware/Philly/NJ metropolitan area. And with all of the major companies that are based in the Dallas-FortWorth-Plano metroplex, we hopefully shouldn't have a too hard a time finding Megan a good career there that she will enjoy and excel in. I have had the good fortune of being able to live in both Florida and Delaware at this point in my life, and am excited to experience Texas now.
- Third, we both have family connections to Dallas. My brother Greg and sister-in-law Iris used to live there - that is where that they got married and my nephew Matthew was born. While they moved to Florida last year, Iris still has family there. My wife's step-sister Sabrina and her family live in Arlington, and Megan's father and brother have also just decided to follow us to Dallas and give it a try to see if they like the area.
So we are going on vacation to Dallas the week of July 3rd to the 9th to visit Megan's sister, my co-workers, and of course look for a place to live! At this point, we are planning on renting a house for a year to give us time to get a feel for the area and look for a place to buy or build. And then we will be packing our bags and wagons and heading west for good the third or fourth week of July!
