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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | At this moment in America, people are moving to new homes and new cities at the lowest rate on record. |
0:07.1 | That's according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. |
0:09.9 | Part of it is entry-level jobs that tend to prompt workers to move to new places are hard to come by right now. |
0:17.0 | People with jobs are hanging on in place, as are people who were able to buy homes when interest rates were lower. |
0:25.2 | But after we shared our episode with New York City professional mover Adonis Williams, |
0:30.8 | we asked if some of you were in the market for help with moving boxes. |
0:35.0 | And some of you are still packing up and moving somewhere new. |
0:39.5 | This year on Labor Day weekend, I'm moving away to New Orleans. For the last several years, |
0:45.9 | I've been asking the universe for a shift to meet a partner, to have a kid, and it hasn't come. |
0:53.7 | So at a certain point, I realized it was up to me to create my own shift and to answer my own needs. |
1:00.2 | I am in New York City and Woodstock, New York, and we are selling and getting rid of everything |
1:09.3 | to move to Paris. |
1:11.6 | I have multiple sclerosis and the health care in France is very desirable. |
1:19.6 | So we are moving for health care, for culture, and for great food. |
1:26.3 | We were married for 23 years, had a very happy marriage, but in January, he passed away. |
1:33.3 | I had been wanting to move back to Chicago, and I thought, this is it, I'm going to do it. |
1:38.5 | And I was a little bit nervous about making a change like this at age 67. |
1:43.5 | But I thought, well, if I stay in Utah, |
1:46.1 | I'm still going to be 67. |
1:47.6 | I'm not going to be any younger there. |
1:49.0 | So I just had to do it. |
1:52.9 | Hi. |
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