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I mean, maybe you left the city because you didn't like the place altogether, or your job, or the people, or you couldn't live with your parents anymore... Whatever the case, I mean just up and leaving, without a new job lined up, without a place to live until you find one, etc. Whatever your story is, tell it.
YES! I left CT when it began spiraling down in the 2000s - high taxes, corporations were leaving, high unemployment...picked a place that (according to BLS numbers) had better employment prospects for middle-aged people. Packed up a U-Haul, dumped the house, drove down, and never looked back. Stayed in an extended stay for two and a half months, got a much better job than the one I'd most recently had.
Never looked back!
Still here. One of the better moves I ever made. Whatever you do, do it by analysis: it would be terrible to jump from a frying pan into a fire!
I left a town when my family helped me out. Couldn't find temp work & saw a lot of prejudice against folks of color. The last straw was when I was interviewing for a job, (which I probably could have gotten) & 2 Mexican folks came in. It was a nonprofit, an area I had worked in most of my life, & their response disgusted me. They said not to worry, I wouldn't have to work with "those" people. I blew up & told them I would never work with an organization that had such prejudices. As I said, my family helped & soon I was on my way to San Francisco, which I loved.
in 2006 i moved from wilkes-barre pa to Phoenix az because i couldn't tolerate pennsylvania anymore.
It was during the housing boom and my job was in high demand, so it wasn't too much of a risk. My first day there had 4 interviews lined up and after the 3rd job offer I cancelled the fourth. It's a bit different world in my field now.
My wife and i had a 5 year plan to stay in phoenix before going elsewhere, 8 years later we moved to raleigh, and 8 months later to Wilmington, nc.
I mean, maybe you left the city because you didn't like the place altogether, or your job, or the people, or you couldn't live with your parents anymore... Whatever the case, I mean just up and leaving, without a new job lined up, without a place to live until you find one, etc. Whatever your story is, tell it.
Used to do this all the time, until the economy was destroyed and the mortgage crazy-fest began.
Used to be, you could easily make a "lateral move" pretty much anywhere in the U.S., excluding S.F., N.Y., San Diego and other "swank" places. But you could move from Anywhere USA to Anywheres USA easily, get a similar job, and live. Simple medical care was reasonable, rents were reasonable, more companies (good ones) had benefits and okay wages. Not great, just okay. Enough to live on, simply. It wasn't some paradise, back in the day. But it was easier.
I moved 12 times in 23 years, sampling the USA.
Can't do it easily, now. Things have become so complex, so expensive.
Are we talking about getting up and leaving at only a few days notice or with preparation? I've moved several times without a job, but it's usually been planned in advance.
I have really wanted to get up and leave, in my current location. It is just so hard and difficult living here. I realize, the key, for getting out of this ****hole, is to getting through my program.
When I got out of the navy in 1999 I decided to move to Las Vegas. I drove across country and slept in my ford bronco I had at the time. I got to Las Vegas about 5:30 in the morning on a Monday. By 11am I had a job and the job gave me a lead on a furnished apt.
I don't think for a second it would be that easy today but at the time my qualifications were in high demand and my job interview was pretty short and sweet and was hired on the spot.
I'm packing up my car with whatever will fit and driving to Colorado at the end of next month. I have been saving for a few years and have a couple of housing options open. I'm going to get a storage unit, pack everything that won't go in my car and then come back in 3-4 months with a big truck and drive it to Colorado. I can't wait to leave the south. I'm on no contact with what's alive of my biological family. I'm only 22 so I figure now is a better time than ever. I'm hoping to take a road trip to California in the fall months as well. I can't wait to explore the great american west.
When I was 17, I bought a ticket on a Greyhound bus and went from Minnesota to California, only knowing that my cousins were going to let me stay with them for awhile. I went Bakersfield to San Jose several years later after I graduated from high school to do something different other than stay in Bakersfield. I went from San Jose to Seattle in 2001 because of high rents, but I already had a job and a place to live lined up. In 2008 I lost my job and couldn't find another, so I made the mistake of moving back to Minnesota to live with some relatives for awhile. Worst mistake I ever made. Besides going back to the small town I hated and left at 17, I felt like a failure. So with no job and planning to live in my car, I ended up back in Washington state. Now I'm close to retirement and when that happens, I hope I can afford to buy a minivan and travel around the country, living out of my vehicle and sleeping in campgrounds. If I find someplace I like, I'll settle down there.
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