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I like your situation with your sister, there's very few negatives to it. Clean your fish outdoors. Remember that time apart makes time together better - so the 45 minute distance from SO is ok. 400 a month is remarkably low. I'd stay right there and keep on with your long term financial plan. Getting that huge amount of student loan forgiven in 9 years is a huge windfall.
Advice from a 53 year old who has learned how fast a decade can go by. ;)
this what I think and a decade flies by
That worries me... ten years of my life just gone in the blink of my loan drone, zombified eyes? haha
I would do an intense search to find a gov't job that suits you more (aren't there tests you can take and if you do well new opportunities open up?) but sometimes jobs suck for a long time, make out of work time fulfilling.
Yup... that is the plan! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by freshstart
I keep thinking of things, sorry! Maybe your SO would be willing to move closer to you so you don't have to uproot your entire life
If you keep thinking of things, then keep'em coming! I am open to all sorts of ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by freshstart
My SO owns here own home (or rather, has a mortgage). I don't know that she'd want to move, unless it was to move in together. I am not comfortable with that.
Does your region have a booming economy? If not, maybe time to consider new locale for higher, more stable income until you get debt paid down?
Columbus, OH has a pretty dang good economy. There is hardly even a dusting of rust here. The new housing bubble is bubbling up big-time! People are buying homes that are outside their price range, too big for them, much too much to maintain, and generally just an unwise investment. That, and the gubmint jobs galore, really have the 'comeny booming!Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
How about a job with National Park service in a fish-related range capacity?
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/411409000
The ranger jobs I have seen often come with housing.
Thanks! I am open to these options. I will start looking into them tomorrow when I begin looking/applying for jobs to get ahead of a possible lay-off.
Remember that 10 years will pass either way ... And you will either be out of debt at the end of it or still have 15 years of student loan payments in front of you. ;)
I get a chuckle out of the government jobs idea. Fed and local do differ (and that may affect your loan), but I always joked that if I lost a job and had to go collect unemployment, I would ask for an application at the unemployment office.:D
When I first moved out here to Phoenix a couple of years ago I got a furnished room with kitchen and desk at the Extended Stay hotel near work. I think it was around $700/mo? I soon got an apartment that I didn't like as much once I moved in, even though it had more room, and what with all the extra charges (paying extra for trash? in an apartment? and others) I ended up paying much more and with the hotel room utilities, including wifi, were included. They also allow pets, as one guy had a fairly large dog. Not all extended stay hotels are wastelands. They even had coffee and rolls every morning. When you need to move out if you haven't found something, you might look around near where you are working at some of that type of hotel. There are several brand names. If you say you are staying for a month at a time you get a much better rate than if it is just weekly, so allow for that as well. It is the first level of not having responsibility. :) They even come in and clean your room and change the sheets every week. And have on-site clothes washers and dryers.
I now live in a +55 mobile home park where I own my mobile home and pay lot rent. Not a lot cheaper than the hotel room was. My goal is to get rid of enough of my stuff to fit into either an RV or back to the Extended Stay hotel. It wasn't a bad gig.
that actually sounds like a sweet deal, especially if you have a dog
I decided I am ready for this: http://www.eddyseniorliving.com/our-...-at-glen-eddy/
I have seen patients here and it is unbelievable, the DR is gorgeous, way nicer than the places I eat at. Patients told me the food is gourmet. The apts are so nice, freshly built, way nicer than any apt I've ever had. Plus, look at all the other stuff you get! I'm 45, that's old. And when I was in there, the Clash was on the Muzak! I have found my people!
the $5000 a month price tag, meh, who cares?
Hmmm. I've always said that my idea of simple living involved a hotel. Food for thought...Quote:
Originally Posted by shadowmoss
Personally one of the things I love about traveling for work is that I don't have any of my usual home chores. No cooking dinner, loading the dishwasher, feeding the cats, cleaning the litterbox, putting laundry away, etc. I'm not sure I'd want to live like that 7 days/week but it's nice to do for a few days here and there on a regular basis.
Ok, Jake - Twin Cities report. Have you been? It is so awesome here and I've only seen a little bit. Too bad I only have a day and a few hours here. I wasn't that serious when I mentioned it before, but now I am. The trees, the lakes - there are kayakers and canoers everywhere right in the city. And all the SLers. I am so getting a van within a few years so I can live throughout Minnesota, especially here.
If you are considering other states you should give it serious consideration.
Oh... I know. I factor that unfortunate reality into my situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tammy
This is kind of a cool idea. Though the thing that scares me is BED BUGS! hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by shadowmoss
Kestra:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestra
That city is on my list, or rather, those cities are on my list. The problem is that it is cold! But I suppose I could learn to ice fish and teach my dog to pull my sled to work from Sept. 1st to July 1st. ;)
Well, luckily you're already in Ohio, so you're used to some cold. I'm not sure how much of a difference there is. What helps in Winnipeg, and I've heard in Minneapolis is if you live downtown there are indoor walkways so you don't have to actually walk outside that much in the winter if you live and work in those areas. But there are of course benefits to not living in the core, and in the winter is it better to bus or drive? I hate transferring buses and also driving in the winter so I try to just live where it's one bus to most places.
Winter's also great for practicing your stoicism techniques, which you might enjoy.
Oh Kestra... You know I dig my stoicism! hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Kestra
Central Ohio is nice from roughly April through October. Jan. and Feb. are bitter cold though.
As I'm just waiting around for roommate to get up so we can do something I took the time to look up average January high temperatures.
Winnipeg 10F
Minneapolis 22
Columbus 35
Columbus would seem super mild to me in the winter.
35 degrees is fairly cold by central Ohio standards. But considering it is roughly 35 in Winnipeg right now, in the middle of summer, I am sure you can see why I would have apprehensions about moving north.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestra
? It hasn't been 35F for several months now. It's about 65 right now. Has been around 80-85 plus humidity for most of July. Though, yes of course, overall it's cooler than most places. Lots of people move out to BC for the better climate.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
65 in Winnipeg? I refuse to believe that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestra
:)Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
Winnipeg is a tropical paradise compared to Edmonton in the summer, though it seems to have gotten a lot warmer there since I lived there as a kid.
You slackers need to burn more fossil fuels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestra
Oh, our government is on it. They don't care what us tree hugging, liberals or First Nations people have to say. Alberta and Ontario need their rich, SUV driving, cattle-farming, car-building, industrialists to keep voting in these horrible conservative governments.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
Amen to that! There's gonna be palm trees on the Coast of Lake Erie within two decades! We can do it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestra
AMEN. 42 of our National Parks are at risk for oil drilling, 12 already have it. Obama stepped up to fight more arctic drilling but turned around and gave oil companies the right to lease even more park land to drill. I love him but that was bad. Overall though, if his environmental proposals are adopted by Congress, including today's major climate control act, maybe we would finally be getting somewhereQuote:
Originally Posted by Kestra
Obama's presidency is the reason I quit voting. I won't get fooled again!Quote:
Originally Posted by freshstart
We're never going to have perfect. Perfect is the enemy of the good. If you are disappointed, perhaps your expectations were too high? Obama had some failures, but he had some solid successes. We all know there's no such thing as a Knight in Shining Armor in politics. But I'd rather have the the person with MY vision wearing the tarnished armor.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
I dunno... I think bad is the enemy of good.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
+1 I think continuing to believe in these horrible leaders is the enemy of the good, if we can't even call these bad leaders like Obama bad, which they are, can't even call a spade a spade, that's the enemy of the good. It's bad enough we're ruled by monstrous evil without pretending we like it.Quote:
I dunno... I think bad is the enemy of good.
So just guess better next time. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
Doing nothing is not an option.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
I just see voting as futile, counterproductive, and a waste of time. So I would rather do something constructive.