Like wheels within wheels, I have schedules within schedules for our move to South Dakota. The best case dream scenario would be that we leave for Sioux Falls the end of June after the youngest son graduates from high school. But that would require the sale of our home or at least a ratified contract.
The absolute 'drop dead' deadline for moving looks to be August 1st or very soon after. We leave by then even if the home here is still unsold - off we go even if it's vacant.. It may come to that, considering the glacial home market here in the Williamsburg area.
These layers of uncertainty add to the stress or the excitement, depending on your point of view, of moving to a place you have never been before and where you do not know a soul. Of course, my wife's people are only five hours away in Mclaughlin - five hours away in South Dakota on straight roads is nothing, I keep telling myself.
I like those stories in the local media about how friendly Sioux Falls is, about how it's a great place to raise a family, big enough to grow you, small enough to know you. Encouraging words!
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