When you first moved to Phoenix (rental car, apartment, rental)

[southenfried]

what did you do?

- found a place?
- looked for a job?
- looked for new friends?
- looked for a cheap motel?
- looked for cheap rental cars?


give me some details


i'm a African American male, that have alittle money in my pocket
and wanted to moved to Phoenix, az by driving my car a cross the country, Yes driving<<<//lol

i just need alittle help on where to go besides getting a rental apartment

- like where can i find a job or where are some staffing companies(like jobings) that are hiring jobs thats hands on type of work with reasonable hours

i tried doing alittle research online, so far so good for now


thanks......

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[Rick Lee]

I had a job transfer me here. I already had a lot of friends through my car hobby BBS. One of them became my realtor. We came to visit in Feb., went house hunting with him, found a great place, signed the lease. I rented my house in VA out for $25 a month more than my total carrying costs and they signed for two years. I had a friend ship my motorcycle out here, another friend drive one of my cars here from MD on a business trip, stored it at another friend's hangar at Deer Valley Airport and then I drove myself here in two days from VA. My wife shipped her car commercially and came three weeks later. Three weeks after she got here, she had a job paying more than she was making in DC, which was already a good job. We landed on our feet, that's for sure.

[dc1225]

dam rick, talk about things falling into its places...

[southenfried]

Originally Posted by dc1225

dam rick, talk about things falling into its places...

lmaoo exactly

got a maid

[Rick Lee]

If you wait until everything is perfect, you'll never pull the trigger. My plans were past the point of no return long before any of this good fortune shook out.

[southenfried]

yeaaa i know, because when i live here from Atlanta, I'm not turing back

[rickca]

Just a tip on a job search.. Job Search | one search. all jobs. Indeed is a job search engine that has nearly every job listed thats on the internet as it takes jobs from all the other sites.

[dc1225]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

If you wait until everything is perfect, you'll never pull the trigger. My plans were past the point of no return long before any of this good fortune shook out.

or be filthy or semi-rich like yourself then you don't need to worry

[Elmonellie]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

I had a job transfer me here. I already had a lot of friends through my car hobby BBS. One of them became my realtor. We came to visit in Feb., went house hunting with him, found a great place, signed the lease. I rented my house in VA out for $25 a month more than my total carrying costs and they signed for two years. I had a friend ship my motorcycle out here, another friend drive one of my cars here from MD on a business trip, stored it at another friend's hangar at Deer Valley Airport and then I drove myself here in two days from VA. My wife shipped her car commercially and came three weeks later. Three weeks after she got here, she had a job paying more than she was making in DC, which was already a good job. We landed on our feet, that's for sure.

Wow! I read your story and loved it. Love to see good things happen to good people. Hope you are liking it here in Phx.

[Rick Lee]

I'm not rich at all! Well, I am, just not financially. In fact, my toys and owning a house in VA are what took me so long to get to AZ in the first place. If it had just been my wife and me in a car, we'd have gotten here years ago. I had a job dissolve two years ago, got hired back at my old one and couldn't exactly start pushing for a relo to AZ the next day. When I overheard my boss say he wanted to put someone in the southwest, I started pushing for it. The planning was intense. I even had to line up a bunch of business meetings in Phoenix to get the company to send me out here for house hunting and to prove that there was business to justify the move. The company didn't pay for a dime of the move and docked me vacation days for the drive out here.

Signing that lease here felt like the time I bought a roundtrip flight to China, not knowing much Mandarin, not going with a tour group, not knowing anyone and wondering what I had just gotten myself into. It's a weird feeling, but those are the kinds of situations in which I excel. And I wouldn't move away from here for anything in the world. I was well rewarded for my determination and focus. Of course, I'm making less money at the moment, as I have a new business territory and I'm always in fear for my job. But everything else I ever wanted, I got now.