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Originally Posted by collegeguy35
She has kids so moving is out. Her husband has a job so if he leaves his they start over. He has to find a job in the worse job market in 30 years. I know people that move and still do not find anything. The fact is your cousin got lucky. He most likely will get laid off in the next year or 2. The last one hired first one laid off.
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You're all missing the fact that we have NO IDEA where she lives. My comments about relocating were directed to your posts, not the OP.
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Originally Posted by collegeguy35
And last but not least how do you move when your broke? And who will rent to you with no job?  |
I know MANY people who moved when they were broke and had no job. This isn't the first recession I've lived through.
The late 70s and 80s were much worse in my region than what the country as a whole is going through now. We had an exodus of population. All of those people who left, left because they couldn't find a job. That mass population exodus resulted in more sports bars in cities throughout the world than for any other football team. I'm only sharing that as a visible example of the widespread disbursement of my city's population after the fall of the steel industry.
My city lost 50,000 per each year in the 1980s due to people relocating elsewhere because there were no jobs. 50,000 might not seem like many until you consider that my city isn't a large city. Most of those people spent most of their savings before they finally gave up and moved out of town.
I'll never forget my girlfriend. She sold everything she owned, packed the remaining necessities in her car, and drove to Florida. She slept in her car and she ate from a cooler she packed before she left. Her only expense was gasoline. There wasn't a job waiting for her there. She got a job as a waitress and lived in her car until she could find a place to live. She's still in Florida and has a PhD now.
I moved out of the city in a similar fashion, except I didn't have a car. I was dropped me off at a hotel in another city. I immediately contacted employment agencies, interviewed, and had a job before the end of the week. One of my ex-coworkers made a call to an old high school friend of his who lived where I moved, and he in turn introduced me to a fellow Pittsburgher who had recently moved there. He and I became roommates.
That's how
I found a place to live.
I come from an area of very tough, resilient people. Even though so many people left the city, many more people stayed and worked hard to rebuild their lives. They pulled their lawn mowers out of their garages and mowed lawns to feed their children. Many of the area's landscaping companies and garden centers are the result of people reinventing themselves without relying on a companies to hire them.
Maybe just the fact people dare to do it makes them more likely to succeed because people who dare to do it have the gumption to make things happen. I was hired because they were impressed with my determination. I was living out of a suitcase at a Holiday Inn for goodness sake!
Anyway, that's how it's done. It's not easy. It's not pretty. But it's possible. And, yes, I know families with children who did it too.
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