Gambling not with money
14 months ago, I filled my car with everthing it would carry. I left a rented house filled with my own furntiture, books and clothes behind. Anything I coudn't carry in one trip I left behind.
I posted the keys through the landlords door, fuck the deposit!
And moved 200 miles down south to Cardiff to start a new life with someone I had known for 5 months.
SO far its going well and we are getting Married in a couple of weeks time.
I could have lost everthing and had to return with nothing and my tail between my legs.
I didn't it was a gamble and the most extrme thing in 37 years that ive ever done and its paid off handsomley.
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Fri 8 May 2009, 10:59, 5 replies)

Have to say
That's a great story.

But why didn't you sell everything you owned? And the deposit!!!!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 8 May 2009, 11:44, closed)

I did it
I'm one of natures greatest procrastinators. If i'd seen out the tenancy and settled all the bills, I probaly woundn't have done it.
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Fri 8 May 2009, 19:48, closed)

Holland
I did the same thing in a way. I had never thought of moving away from Birmingham but I was offered a job in Holland, gave it 2 minutes thought and said yes. I left everything behind apart from my clothes. Been here 10 years now and have a house and a Dutch wife etc.
(amsterdam_neild, Fri 8 May 2009, 14:33, closed)

I did that
Yeah, I did that.

Moved to France to be with a girl i'd known for a few months.

Wish I could say it's paid off.

Been here a year.

Toughest year of my life.
(setesh, Sat 9 May 2009, 21:36, closed)

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Aye,
but in 10 years time you'll have a great story to tell your freinds.

I'm not being trite. Most people (myself incuded) are too bound by convention to take any sort of chance. Like the cliched saying goes "You regret the things you haven't done more than the things you have."
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Sun 10 May 2009, 7:46, closed)