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Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. Available wherever you get your podcasts. My kids were like, what do you mean? This is our home. We can't move. And I'm like, of course you can pick up. Like, fuck up, kids. You'll make new friends. Like, let's go.

Welcome to how to.

I'm Courtney Martin.

So much of our lives are tied to a specific location.

We set down roots based on our jobs, our family, our kids' school, heck, even our favorite restaurants.

Sometimes we uproot that life in order to create a better one.

We find a new job. We move somewhere cheaper.

We relocate to take care of family.

But other times, the reasons for moving aren't so concrete.

You know what I'm saying.

Sometimes you just need a change. It's time for a new

season, and that season will be seated by a new place, which is where we find today's listener.

I'm caring. I'm middle-aged, although I don't love that term, and I have lived in the same

house in rural Virginia for over 20 years, and I'm

looking for a new place to live and trying to figure out how to do it. Carrie, so we want to just get

to know a little bit about your life now. Will you paint a bit of a picture of where you live and

who lives with you and what your daily life is like? I live in a small house on three

and a half acres, sort of between D.C. and the Blue Ridge Mountains. I raised two boys here.

The 23-year-old is out in the world. The 19-year-old is still with me in the basement, paying rent,

but ready to fly whenever I fly. I work in healthcare tech. I travel quite a bit for work. As I travel, I really have realized that I want a city vibe.

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