Restless, Wanting to Move | ADHD Information
Well, as a single person , I moved twice a year b/c of college. That set up a roving mentality, and I moved 8 times after college, got married, and when we had our 4 child we settlted down b/c it was soo hard to move now. We've been here for 11 years. My roving continued as an itinerant ag researcher, where it now encompasses Panama northward. The kids stay at home with mom, and I return on weekends, and for the summer. They miss me, but it's a compromise. I miss them, but I further my career. They're older, 18, 15, and 9. I've done this for 2 years now.I never wanted to move growing up and don't much now. Sometimes feel the urge to get out from under the mess I make - but haven't messed up since moving to Alberta. Hard to mess up when you isolate yourself.
My dad (who I know is ADHD) wanted to move all the time. We moved when I was 5, 7, 10,12,16 - and then they moved 6 years ago, again 4 years (back to the old homestead to be near family), and this year farther away from everyone. Nomads.
I wanted to have the family - the white picket fence, the wife, the kids, even a damn dog though I'm allergic and get annoyed by the yapping. It's part of the family experience so ya gotta have one!
It isn't in the cards for me - but I got the good job and a town I like so I'll settle. But I never got that urge like my parents to rip up the roots and try something new. I like to have things today as was yesterday and tomorrow a bit of the same too. Not into change or excitement. Would have loved to have that kid and I'd have kept the wife too I think.
I talk about moving all the time yet here I stay. Been here for 30 years..a change is long overdue..unfortunately I'll probably be saying the same thing in another 30 years still in crappy town...I have moved many many times. I to get restless and the desire to pack up and check out a new place creeps into my head. I finally moved back to Key West, FL where I lived in my early 20's. Once I got here I decided to focus on things that I've always ignored in the past...ie, ADHD, career and maintaining a STABLE healthy life. I wanted no more transition. It's hard to get ahead when you are always thinking about the next job, next place to live, next thing to do. I'm trying to be settled and happy where I am right now. So far it is working.[QUOTE=GlenW]I like to have things today as was yesterday and tomorrow a bit of the same too. Not into change or excitement. [/QUOTE]
You know I think that just hit the nail on the head. Don't like change nor excitement myself either........ Ans as for yesterday, today and forever I think that is whaere my restlessness comes in. I look around the area and there is so much change here since I was a kid. That is all part of life. But I always wanted my kids to be able to play footy on the road and draw tennis courts the width of the road with chalk. All the neighbourhood kids knew one another and played for hours every day together. Our kids just can't do it because even the back streets are so busy now and thy're not allowed to even build BMX jumps along the creek because the council rips them up because of insurance issues.
I like hearing other peoples stories, thanks for sharing about this issue. I think some of you have helped me really establish what it is that has me so restless.
Sorry about the font. I didn't want to put it in bold cause I didn't want to appear over the top but I will from now on....... 
I don't meditate persey, I'm a christian so I do pray though which I suppose is a form of meditation, focusing on the Bible and my relationship with God.
And I think that is what it comes down to is the constant distraction and noise where we live, finding a place of solitude because even our own home has become a source of frustration with phones going all the time and people dropping in without calling even if I ask them not to.
And as for the wineries that is just it too, Hubby loves a good red, I could never get into wine though but we do go for country drives and as soon as we are past Gawler into the Barrossa I can litterally feel every part of me loosen. My shoulders relax and all the tenseness I feel in me settles as we near Gawler again and the traffic thickens I tense up again.
I haven't been able to pin point though if the restlessness is just me and that is why I asked the question if any others here feel that sort of restlessness.
My tollerence with the hussle and bussel is getting lower and lower.
Oh and BTW............... What is wrong with the crows? 
i lived everywhere --- including australia for six months you'll be surprised to know. i just move and move and move i went to sydney, brisbane, fraser island, cairns, cape trib, townsville, three ways, some places i don't remember the name of, melbourne then coast road to adelaide, train to perth, up the coast to kakadu national park, to darwin and then i realised i was getting back toward somewhere i'd aleady been so i left....
the same with europe i can't stop to move --- i have a rucksack on my back, i can walk forever and i can dishwash and serve coffee in a hundred different languages i reckon. i couldn't even count the number of countries i lived in or travelled through -- right down to the Adzhar Autonomous Republic (which was a country for all of three minutes before getting re-absorbed into the CIS (russia).
i can't stop to move. i just can't be anywhere for more than 6 months at a time - i have to leave. i get sooo itchy. i start getting up in the middle of the night and walking the city for miles and hours in an attempt to calm my itchy-feet syndrome but it doesn't work. i was born to move. i must have gypsy blood or something.
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Ramblin' Woman
That's a song by Lemon Jelly.
Look it up.
I know about Ramblin, myself. I live in the Anti-Artica right now, and will probably move to some obscure outoftheway place tomorrow. I came from the Russian Republic, and my alterroommate moved on to Greenland.
I decided I'm picking my next moves by Google Earth.
Can I ask if you guys have kids at all. And if so how they go with the moving?
All my moving has been in the same state, South Australia. Never been overseas apart from Kangaroo Island that is 
. And for the most part the moves have been within a 30 minute radius of where I grew up. However when we were growing up where we lived was like in the sticks sort of. We were 30 minutes from the Adelaide CBD but it was such an underpopulated area. Now with Urban sprawl the places we used to go as being " a drive in the country " is now really a part of Adelaide because it has sprawled so far.
they need security and having known and grown up with many Army brats i know exactly how stressful it is to have to constantly keep moving school (my best friend went to 11 different schools before she was 11 -- always the new girl, always having to make new friends, never knowing where anything is or how long you are going to stay, it's exhausting and horrible, so i wouldn't put my child through that).
so no. not much help really!
but i think you would love it in the country and probably really settle - finally. it may be just the reason you are constantly moving is because you haven't ever moved yet to where you truly want to be... the countryside!
g'luck. am signing off now. cj
whats right with the crows??
when something isn't right with me, i become very restless.. i get tense, upset, anxious.. and everything else!!
however when i have peace, i don't really mind where i am..
the countryside is always beautiful and peaceful.. the greenery, the clear sky, the lack of pushy people, the warmth of the community...
btw, i eat kangaroo island free range eggs
KI eggs !!! Gee I haven't seen them in any shops here even. We used to have friends on KI that had thir own honey business to go along with their farm. I haven't been there for around 18 years.
Can I ask which state you are in Brookelea?
melbourne victoria...kangaroo island eggs
kangaroo island cheese
sth australian tomatoes
we also have ki honey, oil, salad dressing....
and no crows supporters!!!
Oh yes you do have Crows supporters................... My step son lives over there and is one.........
I'm wondering how many ADHDers feel restless where they live and want to move.
I've moved 9 times in 15 years. Not all out of just my desire to move, some due to work related stuff some due to marraige break down etc but at the moment I've been in the house I am with hubby and the kids for just over a year, this is only the second house we have actually owned.......... But I want to pack up and move out bush. I hate the city with a passion although I've always been a girl in the suburbs.
I get so restless and ajitated by constant noise, crowds and time table restrictions, I so much want a simpler life........ I'm starting to wonder though is the restlessness in me though an ADHD thing, if we did move to a quieter location with room for the boys to roam and run, a more tranquil and nature inspired way of life would I get bored with that or could I then relax and be happy.
Do others have this type of restlessness as our modern lives become so over stimulated by crowded cities and technology that never lets you be alone.
Have you ever gotten into any kind of meditation? Seems like it would be a lot cheaper and easier than moving--especially if moving doesn't solve any problems.
BTW, your font is so small, I had a lot of trouble reading your post. Old eyes, you know!
you need to visit your great wineries more often...leabrook has a nice pinot gris... very impressive..
drank some today... went to an adelaide hills wineries display...
also, its not your fault... i too would go stir crazy with having both the crows and port power in my town
