Georgia Gardening: Living in Georgia is a disappointment for me :o(, 1 by teateacher

teateacher wrote:
Spider, I know your pain. I felt the same way when we moved to Amelia Island, FL after living all my life (50 years) in Central FL. I've always been outgoing and never met a stranger. I can just talk to everybody and I really tried to make friends there. I volunteered, got involved in the community events, went to church and Sunday School, took some craft classes and even taught at a local public elementary school. I had acquaintance, but nobody that was really a friend. I was lonely the first year, but the 2nd and 3rd years were almost unbearable. For the first time in my life I truly suffered from medical depression and got physically ill. Many people ask me why in the world I would move from 'Beautiful Amelia Island' to the little town of Royston, GA. I tell them... "all that glitters isn't gold" and I really mean it. You can only watch so many beautiful sunrises and sunsets and walk the beach so many times alone, and then it becomes sad. I would walk the beach and cry.....

After 3 years, we moved about a one hour drive to from our daughter who had married and moved to NE Georgia, but the people I've met here aren't connected to her at all. These are just good people. The town is about the same size as the Island was (small....) but the people there just don't compare to the people in Royston. Don't get me wrong about still being homesick because I am. Lakeland, FL will always be 'home' for me and if DH would, I'd go back in a heartbeat because I have family there and some girlfriends that have been my friends since elementary school. DH always hated the humidity & heat, plus the traffic has gotten very bad because we were only 35 miles from Disney and that mess. He would go back if I pushed it, but it would be under protest and I hate to do that. I read a book by Joyce Meyer recently called 'Approval Addiction' and one phrase in it really stood out with me. I couldn't figure out why I just didn't 'fit in' on the Island. She said: "God will give you favor with the people he wants you to associate with." Wow! I'm attaching a picture of my morning sunrises over the ocean.