Tag Archives: Moving to Ireland

Jan2

General views around Newmarket Yards – my new home in Dublin!

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September, 2024

I moved into Newmarket Yards in mid-August, after a rather frantic two weeks of apartment searching.  My various belongings arrived a week or so afterward, and an IKEA trip later saw me with a basically completely set up apartment.

Strangely, I didn’t put up any of my photos from Oregon… I still haven’t, as of when I wrote this post around the end of the year.  It doesn’t feel right, to me – This is a break from my past, and an opportunity to appreciate that past while moving on to my future.  I adore the photos I took, and the memories and awe they inspire, but it feels right to let them stay in storage, as memories of a past that I appreciate but have moved on from.

That’s a bit of a diversion from the point of the post, but it’s worth mentioning.  With that stewing in your minds, dear readers, please enjoy these snippets of life in my new apartment.

Mar26

The process of leaving – Part 1

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March, 2024 – General Thoughts


How does one pack up their life, and move to another world? The same way I packed up my life the last time. Or the time before that, I guess.


In 2011, I left the United States to travel South America and New Zealand.

In 2015, I left Massachusetts to build a new life in Oregon.

Now, in 2024, I’m leaving the United States again – this time for Ireland, an MBA, and… I don’t know what else.


How do I do it? Sequentially, methodically, and with a lot of compassion for myself and my mental need to disconnect and flit between projects.

I started the way I start any project; getting my arms around the task at hand. Defining the problem, understanding the moving parts and confounding factors, and locking down the critical details. All great words, of course, but what do they actually mean?

I started with confirming the critical details:
– Do I have updated passports?
– Can I actually live abroad in Ireland?
– Do I have a confirmed acceptance to my MBA program?


Once all of those were confirmed, I moved on to the longer-scope parts of the project:
– Deciding what to move, what to sell, what to store, and what to throw out.
– Finding a moving company who can both move and store my things.
– Finding a relocation expert in Ireland.
– Getting my finances in order.


All of those are still in-process, of course, but they’ve at least been kicked off – the budget has been set, money is moving, emails are flying around the world, and progress is being made.

Next steps are to start planning the details of my travel to get to Ireland… I have a general plan in play to start in Greenland, and go clockwise around Europe, but the devil’s in the details as we all know… so locking those details down are my next steps.


Slowly but surely, I’m making it happen.