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The Great Recession will end someday, but not today.
If you have a job, and a paycheck, hang on to that job. Least wise until the Left Coast employment picks up and the housing market stabilizes. I live in Oregon, and we still see a few economic refugees seeking a better life in rainy PNW rather than continuing to survive in SoCal even with the SoCal weather and beaches.
Don't fret that your indecision is making you a 'wimp'--- just blame it on the economics of working and living in SoCal at this current time.
(This presumes, of course, you occupation isn't in the Media production industry which is pretty much identified with Hollywood and SoCal. If your job is, ignore my comments.)
I know, philwithbeard, I keep trying to tell myself that. I do have a good job working with nice people and am keeping my head above water (for the moment, anyway). Plus, family is not too far away. Maybe I need to be more grateful. I've got a wanderer's heart though, and that makes it hard to just live in the same place year in and year out. I guess a lot of us Americans have wanderers' genes passed down from our immigrant ancestors. I think I got the motherlode from mine.
I'm not in the entertainment/media production industry, so I don't NEED to work in SoCal, I just really like it there. We'll see what the future brings. Thanks for your comments.
I know, philwithbeard, I keep trying to tell myself that. I do have a good job working with nice people and am keeping my head above water (for the moment, anyway). Plus, family is not too far away. Maybe I need to be more grateful. I've got a wanderer's heart though, and that makes it hard to just live in the same place year in and year out. I guess a lot of us Americans have wanderers' genes passed down from our immigrant ancestors. I think I got the motherlode from mine.
I'm not in the entertainment/media production industry, so I don't NEED to work in SoCal, I just really like it there. We'll see what the future brings. Thanks for your comments.
I hope you find a way to enjoy a month in SoCal at least once a year. I'm with you — my heart is wide open to living either there or on the East Coast — but I know that I'm taken care of and both need and want to be where I am. So my goal is to be grateful for that, and find a way to get out for adventures on both coasts a few times a year.
One of my friends is lucky to have been a teacher. Since he had summers off, many years ago, he started taking his summers in a place he loved, and made friendships and connections there. Now in retirement he still lives in Ohio (where his kids and grandkids are) but now goes every winter to the place he loves. I imagine there's other jobs that would provide the chance to get away, teaching is definitely one.
Maybe you'll have your own business one day and would be able to make your own schedule, or have a West Coast and East Coast office. I know that could be far from your mind, but its Christmas time, so, why not dream?
I hope you find a way to enjoy a month in SoCal at least once a year. I'm with you — my heart is wide open to living either there or on the East Coast — but I know that I'm taken care of and both need and want to be where I am. So my goal is to be grateful for that, and find a way to get out for adventures on both coasts a few times a year.
One of my friends is lucky to have been a teacher. Since he had summers off, many years ago, he started taking his summers in a place he loved, and made friendships and connections there. Now in retirement he still lives in Ohio (where his kids and grandkids are) but now goes every winter to the place he loves. I imagine there's other jobs that would provide the chance to get away, teaching is definitely one.
I like that idea, summer22. If I can't get myself out to SoCal to live, then I'll just have to vacation there, bottom line. Thanks for the good vibes!
I hear-tell Durham is a bit dangerous, but it has more of an artistic bent than a lot of other cities in that neck of the woods (or so I'm told). Good suggestion.
People seem to love Charleston. I'm a little wary of the South (and I know that's a generalization, but still). I wonder what it is about Charleston that people like so much. Are people pretty open-minded there? The politicians seem like bumbling nincompoops down in South Carolina (I mean even compared to other politicians, which is really saying something), so it makes me wary of SC.
.....We are an ethnically diverse family, so the new place we move would have to be open to diversity......
But seriously, if I have to sit through another pummeling winter or another muggy summer, I think I'll go insane.......
Just which leg are you trying to pull? Are posters trying to express the opinion that NC or SC both have socially open-arms acceptance to a racially mixed family without any social snubbing or ostracizing AND don't have hot-hazy-humid muggy summers?
Just which leg are you trying to pull? Are posters trying to express the opinion that NC or SC both have socially open-arms acceptance to a racially mixed family without any social snubbing or ostracizing AND don't have hot-hazy-humid muggy summers?
Really?
Part of the problem may be that there just aren't any cities on the East Coast that meet my admittedly stringent criteria. I know people have been trying their best to give me alternatives. Unless I'm mistaken, I may have to start widening my search.
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I know that could be far from your mind, but its Christmas time, so, why not dream? 
