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The risks, (mostly financial):
- by the time I start, the office would be probably closed and everyone WFH, hard to get on-boarded.
SO WHAT. THIS IS THEIR PROBLEM IF THERE IS A DELAY.
- would have to live in a temporary apartment for 2 months minimum, that is not too good for isolation from other people in case social distancing is ordered. My current house in CA is a separate SFH.
AN APARTMENT SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE. YOU HAVE SEPARATE EXTERIOR ENTRY DOORS AND DIFFERENT HEAT/AC VENTS PER APARTMENT. AIR ISN'T BE SHARED.
- If I get sick while living in the temp apartment, they would not let me back into the complex (in case of leaving for groceries), I would be homeless while sick and likely die.
NOBODY IS GOING TO REFUSE YOU TO ENTER YOUR APARTMENT. WHEN PEOPLE ISOLATE, THERE IS NOT RULE THAT SAYS IT'S ONLY FOR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
- By the time I get to move into the temp apartment and want to buy a month supply of groceries the grocery store might be empty or closed.
YOU CAN GET FOOD AT GROCERY STORES IN FLORIDA. EVEN NOW WITH CRAZY FRENZY, FOOD IS AVAILABLE.
- can get sick on the road, while stopping in many cities and hotel rooms. While sick from CV hotels and apartments or even the company would not let me in and I would become homeless and unemployed and uninsured (could cost my savings on out of pocket hospital intensive care for weeks).
DO YOU HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE? KEEP IT EVEN IF COBRA UNTIL YOU START YOUR NEW JOB AND GET THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE. IF YOU GET SICK AND CANNOT START, THEN YOU CONTACT THEM AND DELAY THE START DATE DUE TO ILLNESS.
- Temporary apartment might have shared HVAC system, that would be bad right now.
NO SHARED HVAC IN STANDARD FLORIDA APARTMENTS. SURELY YOU KNOW OF THE PLACE ALREADY. IF A STANDARD APARTMENT COMPLEX, NO SHARED HVAC.
- Halfway on the way, away from home and from destination, may need to be quarantined, or my destination town might get quarantined, or general interstate roads might get closed by then like in Italy right now. Resulting in being stuck in a an in-between state for months. IT'S NOT LIKE YOU ARE TRAVELING FOR 10 DAYS. YOU WILL KNOW THIS BEFORE YOU LEAVE AND CAN DELAY START DATE ACCORDINGLY. OR IF YOU ARE AT HOTEL IN MIDDLE OF TRIP AND A QUARENTINE, THEN YOU DELAY START DATE.
- Anything other, potentially devastating...
My company moved to a work-from-home policy starting on Monday. We are still hiring for some positions. What we'll do during this policy is ship a company laptop to new hires and on-board them remotely. It's not ideal, but we can make it work in the interim.
My point is, don't just cancel without reaching out to the new company and seeing what your options are. Maybe you can on-board from your current location and relocate later, once everything has settled down with all of the uncertainty.
I am a design engineer, I always look at worst case scenarios.
This is some kind of a long term hotel, with full kitchen inside each unit. The room entry door seems to be from an internal corridor, that is through main door and reception.
It's too bad so many are caught up in this big psyop mess. IMO this common cold virus is a political infection far more than any sort of danger. Remember Y2K?
NOTHING has happened before like these insane consequences. Pro sports cancellations, classes cancelled, everything cancelled.
Turn off your TV, turn off NPR. Everyone is caught up in this insanity, but look at the numbers. Insignificant cases insignificant fatality numbers in the grand scheme of things, under 100 in the USA. Out of 330 million. About 1,000 people a day die in the US of medical errors and malpractice. Has anyone made a big stink about that? No.
Overreaction much? Good luck coming out of this OK, I mean job-wise not coronafake-wise. In two or three months this insanity will hopefully pass. Meanwhile lives are disrupted, jobs lost, the poorest will be the worst affected.
I am a design engineer, I always look at worst case scenarios.
This is some kind of a long term hotel, with full kitchen inside each unit. The room entry door seems to be from an internal corridor, that is through main door and reception.
The WFH might persist for 2-6 months.
That's the type of place my husband is staying in. Other than a few nights of some all night neighbors, it has been pretty quiet. Not the best setup but everyone has been friendly. His office went WFH but at this point, he is allowed to go in, as are some others.
My daughter is starting a new job five states from home. We've been here a for two weeks while she started training. We are living in a hotel until her apartment is ready on Monday.
Her job is fine for now. We were able to get 12 rolls of toilet paper and I'm hoping to go food shopping when the apartment is available on Monday.
We are in Virginia which is about two weeks behind Westchester in terms of the virus. I hoping we can settle down before it hits like it did in New Rochelle.
I'm holding off on selling my house because we have plans to move to a different state when we do sell. I just can't imagine trying to find new doctors, new stores and just starting from scratch in a new state with everything going on at this time. We're not cancelling our plans but we are postponing them.
We are having our retirement home built (ground is being broken in three days) with an estimated finish in four or five months IF things go as planned. Our current plan is to move into an extended stay place one month before completion, but this might change if we have problems selling our current home (currently we are in a hot market for our price range. If that happens, I am not sure what we will do.
Domestic travel will be restricted.
Trump mentioned twice the last few days.
Florida governor is asking for it too.
I think it will happen within a week.
Obviously if no travel then there is no moving either.
First travel is restricted, then local movement or curfew. Both would inhibit a relocation process.
With curfew, you have no access to temporary housing, to buy supplies, to go to mank, to meet with escrow about signing documents, to go to open house events...
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