Then a few minutes afterward basically all of those feelings become diminished?
To all who's reading this blog post this isn't a complaint post. It's more of a feeling discouraged about what I've been researching on our future base of permanent change of station (aka PCS.)
If you haven't been reading my blog posts before this one I'll inform you all we are moving from Italy to Idaho this coming fall! Pretty much one of the only reasons we chose this base out of the list of bases we were able to choose from was because Idaho is only a state away from both of our families. Other than that main reason, the base of Mountain Home isn't on the top of Air Force bases in the continental United States.
I'm not complaining about Idaho. It's just the more I research about this base, the more I've become discouraged in finding a decent home to fit both my husband and mine's lifestyle. We're wanting a home that's a little further out, of course a stand alone, with a little bit of land that's within our BAH...which is a piddly $800 including utilities. Luckily in the continental United States you receive BAH and are ALLOWED to go over your budget if need be. While we're in Italy (OCONUS) we have OHA (overseas housing allowance) and are not able to go over our cap (which at Aviano is 850 Euros/month.)
I've been having a hard time finding something that will have all what we're desiring at our next base, but hopefully something will turn up. I'm wanting to grow a garden, and maybe have some chickens to get back in the swing of things like in my previous before-military wife lifestyle.
Wish us luck this fall when we begin house hunting to find our perfect home near Mountain Home AFB!
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