Quote: (07-22-2012 09:59 PM)Mujeriego Wrote:
I'm curious to get some feedback:
I've been planning a move from the city I currently live in for months now. I moved in with a family member so I wouldn't have a lease, liquidated many of my belongings, and have a pending lease for an apartment in my new locale. Last week I was unexpectedly presented a job offer that is great but would require me to stay. I despise this city but the amount of coin involved is making me seriously reconsider moving.
When presented with a hypothetical like this, it is important to put it into concrete options. Instead of 'Do I live in this place I don't really like or do I move to somewhere else in the world' which is arbitrary, put down what you'd be doing and where. For instance:
1) City 1. Job offer already. Working 9-5, making $x k.
2) City 2. No job offer. Probably going to work full/part time. $x k.
And be realistic. I could easily say "I don't like where I live. I'm going to move to the beach and get a job where I make 200k per year and have sex with a new girl every night." The problem is, the likelihood would be that I'd get there, lose money before I got work, it might not be the work I'd like, I'd have to set up new contacts and then establish everything that I've already established in the new place, which might have taken me months or years the first time around.
On the other hand, when you say you don't want to live in your city, why? If it is lack of anything, what can you do to get those things without moving? If it is expense, can you live cheaper? At the end of the day, uprooting is a pretty massive undertaking if you can improve your life in the same spot.
Other than that, I'd echo the guys above. More details are needed because otherwise we don't really know what the trade off is.