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“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” — Raymond Lindquist
At the start of this month, my fiancé and I made the big, bold, stressful move across the country, from Ontario to B.C., in a twenty foot truck full of our belongings, our car loaded onto the back, and our extremely patient cat in the cab of the truck with us.
It’s something we had talked about for years, half-jokingly. Only in the wake of the pandemic did we begin to seriously consider it. With the light at the end of the very dark pandemic tunnel barely peeking through, and as crazy of a thought relocating was in these endlessly uncertain times, we realized there truly is no perfectly convenient time to take action. With this realization it all began to unravel pretty fast.
We started seriously discussing the idea in the summer of 2020, told family and friends early fall, and by February of this year—holding our breath—we decided to pull the trigger, giving two months’ notice to our landlord, and really everyone that we knew.
Originally, we were trying to plan out every detail to perfection in advance, with our target moving day over a year away. But deep down we knew that the longer of a timeline we…
