Holidays – A Good Time to Research For A Sea Or Tree Change

Summer and holidays are coming up. If you've been thinking that it's becoming just too busy, crowded, noisy, polluted, or too anything that's bugging you in the city where you live, then it could be time to seriously think about moving to the country.

The SeaChange Centre at http://SeaChangeCentre.com.au suggests that for your holiday this season, why not take the opportunity to visit one, or a few places in the country and spend some time seeing what they have to offer? Take along your criteria for what the location must have to help you live the life you want. The criteria should be based on your passions, needs, wants and priorities.

While you're there, soak up the atmosphere, browse the local paper, speak to some locals. Research the housing prices before you go, to see if the options on offer for that area suit your financial situation. Replace that holiday-mode thinking, and instead, imagine yourself living there. Look around. Could you live there, do you think? Does it have good medical facilities, is it attractive – could you look at it everyday, does it have ---- (fill in your own blanks)?

Once you short list some destinations you should visit them and stay a few days at least, in different seasons. What's it like in winter? In summer? Keep in mind that when visiting around Christmas and January, there may be crowds of tourists, making it much busier than normal. That is just another facet of the destination, to add to the equation.

If you've had enough of the city and need to escape the rat race, why not take advantage of this holiday time to see if it would be possible to, whether you could, move to the country - permanently.