If the rules have not changed, here's what I suggest:
--Make your move.
--Once you get there, find a lodge-checking with your home lodge sec'y to make sure the new lodge's Grand Lodge (GL) is in "masonic communication" with the TX GL-and, ask if the new lodge will preform your degrees "by courtesy" for your home lodge.
--Send the new lodge information to your home lodge sec'y.
--He will complete a form and send it to the TX GL.
--The TX GL will send the form to the new GL having jurisdiction over the new lodge.
--they will confer with the new lodge and almost certainly grant approval.
--Once you have the approved form, the new lodge will be able to do your further degrees, using their flavor of ritual and proficiency.
Once you become a MM, you can:
-- stay a distant member of your home lodge--I do that--
-- or, depending on the new GL rules, become a dual member of the new lodge. Because I may move again, I just stay a visitor and make sure I pay for my food and contribute to the charities, through the sec'y, in amounts equivalent to the dues I would be paying.
Once (if) you establish a duel membership and you want to transfer membership... to leave your home lodge honorably, you request a piece of paper called a "demit" ("dee-mitt") from your home lodge. It is something the lodge has to approve by vote.
Normally, if you are in good standing (all dues and fees paid), it is not a big deal. Just don't demit until you have new membership established. I mean, you can, thus becoming an "unaffiliated mason" but, it increases the paperwork for a demitted mason to affiliate and, many GLs limit the number of visits an unaffiliated mason can make to a Lodge. Not paying dues to any lodge, you are considered sort of a "moocher".
David Terrell, PM Smithfield 455