Looking for Advise, on moving to the SAC area from AZ. (Sacramento: foreclosures, house)

[PugLuv1]

I live in AZ, but i would like to move to the Sac area...like Elk Grove, Rocklin, Natomas, and etc. I'm not sure how to go about getting a job... besides looking on CareerBuilders, or Monster. I just feel like i won't get a chance since i live in AZ for any interviews or etc.

Please Help

[phloxy]

What field are you in? Sometimes you can get a phone interview for a first interview and then bear the expense of traveling to a second interview in person. Jobs are scarce in CA now, though. Facing a 10% unemployment rate that's rising, many of us who want to relocate to CA are having to put our plans on hold.

[edwardius]

There are steps you can take to make it appear like you already have a Sacramento address - you can get a cell phone with a Sacramento area code and either use a friends house as an address or got to someplace like the UPS store and create a local Sacramento area address and have them forward your mail to you in Az.

That said the local economy in Sac really isn't doing well and this might not be a good time to get a job in Sacramento - so these efforts still may not pay off. If you were going to move somewhere else for better job, it might be a good idea to move somewhere else than Sacramento. The regional economy is probably stronger is some place like Dallas or Seattle than Sacramento.

[PugLuv1]

Well i'm not looking to move til Sept/Oct....so hopefully things pick up by then.

[deuterdu]

Originally Posted by PugLuv1

Well i'm not looking to move til Sept/Oct....so hopefully things pick up by then.

The economy is spiraling downward due to the "snowball" effect. I doubt that Californias job recovery will begin for another year or two at best. Check out other places or stay where you are unles of course you are in the medical field or some other high demand field.

[drummer5000]

Originally Posted by PugLuv1

Well i'm not looking to move til Sept/Oct....so hopefully things pick up by then.

The economy is likely to be worse everywhere by then, however. look for work using all avail tools and save your cash, you never know what you will find depending on your field. the key here is to have income already lined up in this type of economy it's almost essential.

I personally believe California will be the first out of this mess but I have no hard data, just a belief in the creative potential of Californians who you can't keep down for long.

[zen_klown]

In the past year, the local unemployment rate went by 3% and the problems with unemployment seem to be accelerating. You can read the lastest employment report from EDD here. It breaks down job losses by industry in the region.

http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/lfmonth/sacr$pds.pdf

The Univeristy of Virginia just released a study about the geography of foreclosures. 87% of all foreclosures were located in just four states, California, Florida, Nevada and Az. Of that 66% of the losses were in California.

New U.Va. Study Sheds Light on Foreclosures in States and Metropolitan Areas

I realise the local economy right now in Az probably isn't that great. But the local economy in Sacramento is likely much worse and going forward it looks like it going to keep getting worse at least for the next year.

Economically moving out of Az may in fact be a good idea. But it might be a better idea to move to some place else other than Sacramento right now. If need to move here to take care of family member or there is some other non-economic reason to move here, I am sympathetic to that, but realise you probably will have some difficulties. The last time the local economy was this bad was after the end of the cold war when they were closing many of the military bases in the region. This is an excel link and what is shows is that in the past when unemployment got this high it took several years for the the local unemployment rate to fall back to more normal levels.

http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/indhist/sacr$haw.xls

[PugLuv1]

Thank you so much, actually i lost my job here in Arizona last year. Well employment here is the 2nd lowest in the nation. I received about $850 a MONTH...which is nothing. But i survived it, thank god.

Originally Posted by zen_klown

In the past year, the local unemployment rate went by 3% and the problems with unemployment seem to be accelerating. You can read the lastest employment report from EDD here. It breaks down job losses by industry in the region.

http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/lfmonth/sacr$pds.pdf

The Univeristy of Virginia just released a study about the geography of foreclosures. 87% of all foreclosures were located in just four states, California, Florida, Nevada and Az. Of that 66% of the losses were in California.

New U.Va. Study Sheds Light on Foreclosures in States and Metropolitan Areas

I realise the local economy right now in Az probably isn't that great. But the local economy in Sacramento is likely much worse and going forward it looks like it going to keep getting worse at least for the next year.

Economically moving out of Az may in fact be a good idea. But it might be a better idea to move to some place else other than Sacramento right now. If need to move here to take care of family member or there is some other non-economic reason to move here, I am sympathetic to that, but realise you probably will have some difficulties. The last time the local economy was this bad was after the end of the cold war when they were closing many of the military bases in the region. This is an excel link and what is shows is that in the past when unemployment got this high it took several years for the the local unemployment rate to fall back to more normal levels.

http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/indhist/sacr$haw.xls