My son and I moved to a different country within the UK. ( there are four, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), and we moved West, into south Wales.
We are so much happier here, although Covid has kept us inside for nearly 18 months. My son has found some new friends, which were sadly lacking in our previous home.
I'm happier because it is a disabled friendly single storey place, and I have good friends here too now.
Our old place was really not a nice pace to live, although we didn't realise why we felt so down, until we got here!
Give your new place a chance, and please stop comparing it to the old. That life is in the past, comparisons are futile. If your family is happy, that is the main thing.
Do you have friends in your new place? If not, go look for some with similar interests. Try a new hobby, research the history of your new town, maybe look for some charity work you could do. It is out there if you look.
I'm so sorry you're having a hard time. I too have found it hard to move on from the past. My struggles to move on from the past are for totally different reasons, but I know how frustrating it can be to struggle to move on. Maybe you can find some kind of volunteer work to do. Maybe you can try to find new friends and spend time with them. I'll pray for you.
I find that comparing anything in my life to anything else never ends well. I am a terribly nostalgic person and create huge emotional connections to a time in my life or a happy memory to tangible stuff, whether it is people, places or things. And that is sooo dangerous and makes me miserable even to this day after I've already accepted that it's a bad practice. We always make incorrect assumptions about the happiness and success of others. I see people who have stuff I wish I had or a life I wish I had, and there is a good likelihood that it's legit and they are incredibly happy. But I can't live my life benchmarking my success to everyone else's. With 7 billion people on Earth, there will always be people richer than you, smarter than you, happier than you, with a nicer car then you. You're setting yourself up for a life of misery if you search out those people and live in their shadow. Go to Walmart and look at the slugs there, you will feel much better about yourself. Life was always better somewhere else, in a different time. I was a better person then than I am now. All those thoughts are so unhealthy. The first thing to accept is that good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. That took a long time for me to truly accept. I was always upset about the injustice of it all. Don't let that weigh you down. I miss my childhood home. I miss the real friends I had as younger person. I miss living in a simpler time without cell phones and internet. At some point, you just have to accept the fact that this is where you are now and you can either spend the rest of your life spinning in the same hamster wheel, which has one conclusion- depression and anxiety, or you can get out in the world, reinvent yourself, find new memories to make, and create a life that you can look back on 20 years from now and say man, those were some good times. Even if you have a 50% success rate in your new endeavors, it is still better than the 0% success rate of being stuck in the past and wishing for things you will never be able to achieve. Driving forward with your head stuck in the rear view mirror is going to cause an accident. It's hard to move on from the good memories and it's easy to get stuck longing for them, and I don't have a good way to do it to share with you. I just know that at some point, you have to let it go. What can you do today to make you happy? To feel like you have purpose? To feel like you have value? Look for a new hobby to immerse yourself in. Join a club. Volunteer in your community. Get serious about health and nutrition. Find something with a low barrier to entry and a high likelihood of success. Even if it's a small win, it will give you a sense of accomplishment, show you how good it feels to be happy in the moment, and then you can build on it.
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