Hi guys, (RJ here) going to put the most positive spin on this that I can, but what do you like about where do you live? There is a chance I won't be where I am next year and if I treat it like an enabling plurk maybe this won't be so terrible.
Long story short but my spouse just got word his place of employment is shutting down, and with mine only paying under $12/hr maybe it's time we just backup and try somewhere else
We have nothing tieing us to Michigan anymore. We always thought we couldn't afford anywhere else but if min. wage is higher elsewhere and rent isn't abysmal maybe somewhere else is a better option.
hehe cloudy and rainy is all right, I'm not much for sports but that still sounds nice. I've never lived in a city but I always fancied being able to walk or take public transport somewhere ijnstead of driving
I'm sorry to hear that : ( I wish i could advocate for CA but it's so expensive to live here, it's definitely a bad idea. I hope you get some good ideas and tips here from others though!
thank you Puma. We can always try to get better jobs out here too, I just figure its as good a time as any to see if we can't do better since we're just scraping by with our low wages as it is
I'm in Portland Oregon. tooooons of RPers up here in the PNW! and i love the people here in general. I've felt more free to be me than in a lot of places I've lived (and I have lived in a lot of states)
it's okay Cream, my cousin actually offered to let me live with her for cheap in CA but that was if my husband went back to school or had to leave for a job, so thats off the table for now as it would involve me leaving him behind
I do want to work in storyboarding eventually but in terms of jobs I can do that are immediately hirable I'm great in a warehouse and following orders for manual labor, even working in a cubicle as someone doing data entry is fine to me if it pays well enough
I've just worked nothing but customer service jobs ever since to my school screwed me over so if I continue down this path with these kinds of wages I'm literally never going to be able to afford anything in life.
Yeah! since I don't care about giving myself away we talked about that a few days ago. I hope you guys are able to find something better for the both of you so you don't have to worry about something like that.
My spouse on the other hand can do tech, event coordinating and is great in a team. He doesnt know what he wants to do in life, but he works tirelessly even off the clock and has set up the lights and sound systems for conventions in the Renaissance center and cobo hall
Im in NYC and same on the "its bitch expensive to live here" but the wages are higher across the board. if youre good with commuting from jersey you can also cut your living price down like CRAZY
Yeah its like, right now we spend roughly $800/month on rent and bills, which is dirt cheap to anywhere else as far as I know, but after my student loans, I have nothing left and no one around here will pay more than 12/hr. He was even management position, like, we were as far up the ladder as we can go.
it always seemed like a very nice place but I figured anywhere pretty or popular was just out of the budget. I'll have to look into it, good suggestions :3 thank you
i think it's ontario which i'm not the most familiar with because i'm all the way west in bc, but i would definitely avoid toronto and ottawa and the really big cities, you'd have a decent chance of finding work but the living costs are atrocious
Yeah like my sister straight up flew to Japan to live (and teaches at) so I really don't have reservations about trying anywhere/a new country (though we'd have to save up a bit for that kind of airfare). It being close to where we are now won't be a problem
hmmm I see, I admit cars actually scare me, I try to avoid driving if I don't have to (but that being said I've never not had to drive to work before either, so it wouldn't be anything new)
for job stuff there are always options for online working from home jobs, there's some pizza places that will hire at-home call dispatch where you take the orders and send it to their local pizza place, there's transcription work where you take audio logs from doctors or whoever and type it out into a document for them, lots of stuff like that
Oooh yeah those don't sound so bad. the only work from home jobs out here are like telemarketing, I'd much prefer transcribing. Thanks Mantis, I appreciate the info.
Columbus, OH is pretty good. A lot like Pittsburgh, a pretty liberal town with blue collar running through it and is die hard about its sports, but its smaller so commuting isn't as big of a bitch (i haven't used the public transportation, so i can't offer an opinion about it. affordable housing is general more in the suburbs, but that's where all the
warehouses are, like for Express or L Brands or Mars or... what have you. a lot of companies have moved their headquarters here for one reason or another.
I guess because its so cheap I thought if I couldn't survive here, I may as well have failed everywhere else, but I'm starting to realize there are probably better cost of living situations out there
Oh! no way. I've only done it once or twice but Brian did tech staff so often he became the unofficial liaison between Cobo and Rencen. I got to help him do Mic checks this year.
A lot of the people suck though.