Sooo…say you listened to last week’s episode with Katie Lyon of Furnished Finder about renting a place with no fees for over a month and immediately the city of ________ popped in your head…what’s stopping you from going to that city?
This weekend, I went to Austin and Waco, TX for 5 days. It was magical…
I can’t say it was a vacation because I was ‘working’ almost the entire time. But I was working towards my mission of helping people move smarter and it didn’t feel like work AT ALL! It was amazing! I got to hang out at Magnolia Networks Headquarters AND I got to visit the silos with one of their employees and got the grand tour. I met a bunch of the other podcasters from Rogue Media Network and got to tour our new HQ (I’m on their network). I was interviewed on the local CBS station doing a new ‘Pod People’ segment and went to a block party with a true battle of the bands. It was epic.
I did a lot of things you’d do on vacation, but also a lot of things you’d do in a ‘City POC (Proof of Concept).’ I drove everywhere and had to figure out the traffic patterns. I went to the grocery store which turned out not to be just any grocery store- I went to HEB. If Whole Foods, Sephora and Costco had a baby…they’d call it HEB. I almost bought the ‘I heart HEB’ T-shirt!
It was impressive 🙂 I went to a festival and got to talk to some of the locals. I found out why some of them moved to Waco and I heard about what it was like to grow up in Waco, TX. The good, the bad and the ugly.
And every reason was different. Like WAY different. But that’s why I asked. So I could come back and tell you exactly that.
Everyone is going to have an opinion about the place that you want to move to. Going there yourself and asking all kinds of questions. To the locals, to the people who recently moved there through a meet up group.
Market research could change your life for the good or bad.
“it is not a calculated risk if you haven’t calculated it.”
― Naved Abdali
It’s not like Mathing in 10th grade when things went from not super hard to ‘what the F am I trying to calculate again Trig?” It’s like seeing what the cost of coffee is compared to where you live. How much gas is compared to where you live now. Going to the grocery store and picking up a few things and seeing how much more it felt compared to where you are now. If you wake up feeling joy or if it feels just like at home? If you look forward to leaving and ‘going home’ or it felt like it would be worth the money, the stress, the downsizing or upsizing?
Things like that. Questions, observing, feeling.
It will give you a new perspective to consider and you’re WORTH it.
By the way- I’ve been reading a great book these last few weeks-
I’ve been waiting for that book all my life. And I’m pretty self-confident. Anywho…