My husband and I are planning to move away from Northern Utah. If you've ever lived in a functional theocracy parading as a democracy, you know it's bullshit. Utah is beautiful, but it's also disgusting. If you're anything but a Mormon, you're a second class citizen in Utah. Since we're not Mormon and never will be, living here has become intolerable.
For the moment, though, we're stuck. We both have full-time jobs, we're buying our house, and we don't have enough savings to pack up and move, especially since moving is expensive. So we talked about what we need to do to be able to swing a move and it's deceptively simple:
- Save $4-5k
- Get at least one stable, remote job between us
Looks easy, but saving $4-5k when we're living paycheck to paycheck isn't that easy and finding a stable, remote job in either of our fields isn't either. The markets are flooded with solid candidates with more experience than we have.
And we'd have to sell our house which is easier said than done. The house needs a little bit of work, a coat of paint inside, a repair here and there. I wish I could said either of us were motivated to do that work, but if I'm honest, we're not. We're going to have to get motivated if we want to move. I think we also need to move out before we sell it so it's empty. Empty spaces sell better.
The hubs has been searching for remote work and putting in a lot of applications. I'm going to meet that effort by starting to pack things away into boxes and putting them in the garage so the house is less cluttered and we can see the work that needs doing.
- Our goal: Be somewhere else by this time next year.
We're thinking Pennsylvania or Ohio, we have a great friend there. We're not completely sure yet. What we know is that we want to move somewhere less conservative, not governed by a church, and where we can be happy. I want a forever home, not a temporary place, I want to make this move and then never again. At almost 45 years old, I'm ready to be settled.
