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- Audra Dinell doesn’t regret moving from Hawaii to her home state of Kansas in 2020.
- While being closer to family was one draw, another was affordable living in the Midwest.
- Kansas has a lower cost of living than Colorado and Hawaii, the states Dinell lived in previously.
Audra Dinell, 38, said her move back to Kansas from Hawaii felt like she was starting over.
“We miss a lot of things about the places we left — the people, culture, mountains, and ocean — but no, we do not have any regrets about moving back to Kansas,” Dinell, who moved from Kansas to Colorado before living in Hawaii, said.
Amid the pandemic in 2020, she had an idea for a career shift and wanted to become a homeowner again after leasing a place in Hawaii .
She also moved back to be closer to family and for the “ease of living” in the Midwest where she said “things were easily accessible, affordable.”
Dinell and her husband moved from Wichita, Kansas , to Colorado in 2012 for her marketing career. They had their first child before they left Colorado for Hawaii in 2017 because of a job opportunity for Dinell.