Post #254129 by AquaZombie on Wed, Sep 13, 2006 12:39 PM

Moving to Hawaii and spending my golden years there has become my Big Goal in Life. I have a good job and life here in the Bay Area but there's just something about Hawaii (spec. Oahu) that pulls me like crazy. I was depressed for a month when we returned from our 5th anniversary trip there earlier this summer. I'd weep watching reruns of "Hawaii 5-0" because the location scenery brought back the memory so vividly. Okay, not weep, but maybe get a tad misty. I want to make it over there, for good, in about 10 years. I'll be 53, more than ready to slow down and retire from the rat race.My ace in the hole is also my biggest obstacle - my wife, who, unlike me, is actually close to her family. She wants to get a PHD in Theater here and then begin teaching. They do have Theater programs - which include Research potential - at U of H, so I am nudging her ever so gently but relentlessly to apply there. And keep applying till they say yes...then at least one of us will have a job before we make the move. Otherwise, a simple life is all I dream of. I have a great job here (film programmer for the Parkway and upcoming Cerrito) and it's the only job I've ever enjoyed or been good at, so that's the biggest sacrifice. I'd do it anyway - especially if Monica has a prof. gig and I can just be the house hubbie while I scout around for odd jobs. I like to write so that may be an option though even fewer people will be reading in 2016 than now, I'm sure. Oh well - I say put the dream out there and sometimes Life will provide the opportunities to make it happen, you just gotta have the guts to make the leap when that door opens.