PMeg

MinM

When I was getting my hair done yesterday, I was talking to my stylist about our upcoming move. He asked where I wanted to go....as if we have much of a choice....but I said I want to go some place where it doesn't get snowy cold & doesn't have extreme summers. Basically, CA. But my fallback position is any place that has a fellow WWer.

It's been really hard to make friends, and I don't want to go through this again. If there isn't a WWer, I am not even going to try to make other friends. Too much effort for very little return.

**Stinky!**

I didn't know you were moving again. Why for?

(And I'm hoping for CA for you... for my own selfish reasons.)  

TheDuckis

Northern California is lovely, you know. I so hear you on the friend thing. I think I lack the part of the brain used for post-college friend-making.

Cant_wait!

yes, northern ca is lovely. And we have pugs, and Ulta's.

PMeg819

See, I have made friends since I have moved here. But ever since we moved, I am now far away from everyone. It used to be super easy to get together since we lived in a reasonable distance from each other. I live about 45 minutes away now, and it's hard. Plus, my job blows. I have no social life because on the weekends I'm so damn tired and I have to do all the stuff I can't do during the week. It makes being a SAHM appealing.

But I hear you on the extreme summers. I am very lucky that I love hot weather. I'm always cold, so that whole 100 degree thing works well for me.

MinM

Sinks - H is set to graduate this Spring, August at the very, very latest. At that point, he will be applying for jobs to teach, hopefully, at a liberal arts college.

The move will depend on the offers he gets (if any), the location, salary, liklihood of me getting a job at the location versus what we have now, here (a good job for me, low cost of living, community colleges where he might teach), in the butthole of America.

I hope hope hope we can get out of here, but the economy is so bad, that is isn't a good time for me to be looking for a job. We'll see.

MinM

I'd be OK with northern CA....and Can't Wait, I come with my own pugs

 

**Stinky!**

I hear you on the job front. H seems to think that I should be looking and applying for jobs now, even though we have no idea where we'll be living. I told him to hold on because after almost five years of commuting two hours/day, I'd like to have a much shorter daily drive, and that will require knowing where we'll live first. And he doesn't realize that the economy is schit (especially in CA, it seems) and that the likelihood of my getting a job immediately when we get there isn't great. That's not to say I haven't been looking, but I sure as hell am not going to apply for a job when everything else is still up in the air.

TheDuckis

You are right, Stinky. Especially in the area you're going, traffic is a *** and you really have to know where you're going to be before you start applying for things. The alternative is to find a job first, and make sure you move close to that job, then stick H with the commute.

 Or you can be a terribly bored housewife like me. 

MinM

Stinky - most times people who aren't local candidates won't even be considered for a position. And I hear you x infinity on the commute. I use to drive at least an hour to work, and an hour and half back. Now, my three mile communte is heaven. I am so freakin' spoiled.

Another bugger: I am in research, H wants to teach - if we go to a liberal college, chances are there won't be research positions for me at the same institution. This isn't a deal breaker, we don't have to work at the same school, but it sure makes things easy.  

*Barbie*

if you can deal with the summers, try Houston. Wiggles and Rogue would have a blast with Jake, and I could use a friend in the area. :-)

MinM

I wouldn't mind Austin, but I am not too sure about Houston. I had a friend that lived in Conroe.....and.....well.....