Did moving to another city make you happy?

He made me.

I "got sick" with St. Petersburg in 2007, when I came to see a guy here. It didn't work out with the guy, but the love for the city remained. When I moved, everyone shouted that I would regret that the rain and slush were expensive, that I would be disappointed in a month ...

It's been five years here and I never cease to be amazed at the beauty and depth of this city. It is difficult, it is not for everyone, but all my friends who decided to move here stayed.

... Although now, by the way, I remember that epic and grab my head - how am I doing this decided ?! Throw everything - relatives, friends, work, future, and rush to a completely unfamiliar, albeit beloved, city.

Don't be afraid to dream and follow your dream to the end! I wish you success! :)

Over the past 13 years, it turned out to move 8 times to different cities and countries. Did it make me happier, yes, definitely. Plus, this is an invaluable experience, plus the last 10 years, every year moving (sometimes a new apartment, sometimes a new city or country), and this helps to free your life from trash, helps to learn to start from a new page, new people, new experiences. Getting used to new laws is sometimes not the easiest one, but these are new emotions and a good shake-up. If there is such an opportunity, we definitely need to do it. Just keep in mind that old friends are not always kept at a distance, the family will not always be there. You are likely to become acutely aware of loneliness and homesickness.

For me - definitely yes. I have moved twice, and both moves were turning points in my life. At first I left my parents, and even though the first couple of years were wildly hard and hungry, the beginning of an independent life is still a happy event. It was the crossing from Surgut to Yekaterinburg. I really liked living in a big city with green parks, some historical buildings and some legends - for a person who grew up in a gray northern town built up with identical panels, such things are very important, plus a newly acquired independence in itself.
Ten years later I moved from Yekaterinburg to Toronto. And again, the happiness from opening your new city, which is even higher in terms of awesomeness, even more new, because this is even a different country and all that. In addition, now I also left my husband's parents, which simply could not but rejoice!
But this does not always happen, so I agree with those who wrote "you can't leave yourself." If there are any circumstances that interfere and from which you can leave like this - this is one thing. If a person, in principle, sees only the bad in life, he will be unhappy everywhere. I myself have more than once come across people who fell into depression because my mother now does not iron their shirt every morning, the tickets in the subway are of a different color and look unnatural, and in the nearest store there is some kind of doritos instead of Russian Potatoes. ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯

Of course yes! The first six months are a feeling of novelty and joy of being. Of course, a lot depends on the circumstances. Of course, if you have problems with yourself, they will not leave, but as a suitcase they will come with you to another city.

Nostalgia is present, for example, on March 8 when you see photos from Moscow and outfits and gifts and remember this feeling of the arrival of spring and bustle and you keenly feel how you miss Moscow. You miss your parents the most.

Of the pros, you can completely change your style, circle of acquaintances, hobbies, try something completely new, create a new reputation for yourself.

Of the minuses, it can be scary and lonely. There are social networks for this situation :) I do not regret that I left the big metropolis for almost a resort town. I also love Moscow.

I noticed this:

in the first visits to Moscow, the shortcomings compared to Europe just bulged out and I accumulated them in my mind but did not tell anyone and there was a sharp food nostalgia rushed to the cheese Aleksandrov and Dymovsky nut cervelat, I ran to eat in the Georgian restaurant Satsivi and the lagoon in Chaikhana;

Now, after three years, I do not pay absolutely attention to the shortcomings, but the food nostalgia has completely passed!

Happiness is not a circumstance, it is a choice.

Once I came across this quote, and I realized that this is how I live. You can be happy anywhere, but some places can make us a little happier. Although there are people who do not feed with bread, let them suffer and complain. Moving will not add happiness to such pessimists.

Did the move make me happier? Yes and no.

Why not? I am further away from my friends and parents. I see people who are dear to me a couple of times a year for a week and a half. I thought that friends are a profitable business, there will be others ... But almost 4 years have passed, I haven't made any new ones :( There are friends, good acquaintances, but, apparently, something went wrong. And yet I do not lose hope :)

Why yes. Moving is always a way out of your comfort zone. You are doing what you never had to do before. This is new experience, new knowledge. It's interesting! And most likely, with all this, you will have more money. This means more opportunities. I now have the opportunity to travel. In St. Petersburg, this is generally not a bad thing. You can take a bus and in a few hours walk along the old streets of Tallinn or Riga. Or take a ferry and see 3 Scandinavian capitals in 4 days. And just now there is money to fly somewhere to rest.

In general, if you feel the strength to move, do it. You can always return, but it is more difficult to move yourself to dramatic changes over the years.

Yes !!! A million times yes!

I really feel better, I'm less worried about minor / major troubles. I really became happier and love my city. I began to relax and have more fun, my standard of living became better.

In the previous city, everything began to depress. Almost all the people I knew became unpleasant to me. Everything pressed on me, I began to quarrel with my family more often. I saw only bad things around me. The reason for this is a big event in my life that just knocked me down. I realized that my environment is terrible people.

Now I do not care at all about the troubles that I left in that city. Now I have a new life, new people, new goals.

Moving is my best decision.

A year after moving to Moscow, I caught myself thinking that I had fulfilled my teenage dream: I started life almost anew. In Samara, I have only a family and a couple of not very close friends. At the same time, she turned from a closed botanist into what she had long wanted to become: an active person in the thick of things. So it all depends not so much on the move as on how you put yourself and what you will do in the new place and what roots remained in the old one.

Not just made me happy, he just created a new person out of me, whom old acquaintances no longer recognize, etc., it's just GORGEOUS. The headache is gone, all dull thoughts are gone, I just can and I just live.

You can't get away from yourself :-))))

But a change of place, weather, energy, environment, language, mentality, country has a refreshing effect and helps to accelerate personal growth.

In 2 years in another country with a different language and customs, you advance more in understanding life than if you would have stayed at home for 10 years ...

I personally checked in Germany and the Dominican Republic - countries are very different, but only after living there , I understood almost everything about happiness :-))))

I became happier from the move. In fact, the easiest way to get new experiences for a long time is to move. Impressions are mental food. If you sit for a long time without tourism or travel, then you gradually impoverish your thinking. I moved half a year ago, and I will go again the day after tomorrow. This time to Peter. I have long dreamed of living there. I'll live there, then I'll probably go somewhere outside the country. I can say for sure, from moving you become happier if you are free. If you have lost your freedom ... SSZB.

I went for a very long time to move to my beloved city of my country, I worked hard, maintained an excellent level of study, considered housing options and only after three years I was able to move, my beloved husband was waiting for me there at the moment, excellent education, own home and a lot of experiences, just imagine living in your favorite city. So yes, after moving I am just happy.

I think moving in itself cannot make a person happy. But it can be a part of big changes, which, yes, are capable of it.
I studied 5 in Kharkov, and all the years I did not like this city. This brought some discomfort, and I knew that I would not stay here after my studies for anything.
Kiev has always attracted me. Once, having come to visit a friend for a couple of days, I walked around the capital and wrote in chalk on one wall "I promise, I will live in Kiev." It was three months before graduation. Four months later, I was already living in Kiev.
I've been here for a little over a year. Did it make me happy? Hardly. But moving to an unfamiliar city, where I have no one, made me become stronger and bolder. Perhaps this is already a step towards happiness.

It seems to me that the feeling of happiness has nothing to do with moving. But there is the effect of waiting, they say, I'll move and be happy! Instead of moving, you can bet anything: lose weight, graduate, give birth to children, get a promotion, and so on. We have forgotten how to enjoy the present moment and simple things: ((every day is a holiday, because life can easily end. I have a talisman hanging at home - a stranglehold. They asked me what is my favorite number? I called 5, made a stranglehold with 5 turns on the knot and It will be a present for happiness. It will be sickening - look at this noose, they told me then. It works. Happiness to you!