How is anyone supposed to move to a different city or a different state even? I goddamn hate Texas and need to be somewhere else immediately, but I’d need a whole big pile of money, a job where I’m going, and some kind of local support when I get there? I’ve been trying this for years and just can’t wrap my head around it. It gets harder the older I get because I get more entrenched where I am. How have y’all handled this?
You essentially need like 2-3k saved up so you can drive/fly to your destination, apartment shop to make sure you don’t rent a slum sight unseen. sign papers, put down a deposit and first months rent, then go back home, rent a cross state uhaul if you can find one, time your packing just right to minimize how long you have the uhaul to save money, then drive 100s of miles in a bouncy rickety truck with tons of air noise and then immediately unpack all your shit at your new location.
It sucks.
I actually could cough up about that much money, it’s all the other parts that scare the hell out of me.
Most “just move” people tend to be privileged enough to not only have savings, but in careers where they’d only move once they have a job offer and often the company pays for moving expenses. Hell, one of my friends was given a furnished apartment from the company for a few months until she could find a place. When I see people whose solution to poverty in high col is to “just move” I remember how much easier it is for professionals.
makes it all the worse when assholes pull that tired garbage of “don’t like it, move”
“love it or leave it”
“I am too poor to leave it, which is why I don’t love it”
“Fuck you then”
Apply for jobs where you want to move. Save up money for a short while. Lots of people move in August, so you got plenty of time to save up for it.
Believe me you wanna have a job lined up before moving, makes it a hell of a lot easier.
One more thing on this you’ll have to be ready with a story, and it can’t be I hate it here. Something showing familiarity with where you’re trying to go, and ideally some sort of social connections. Of course if you HAVE those social connections it’s easier since they can hopefully help you find a job.
If you are a PMC type/college grad career services at your college can help even many years later.
