How Do You Set Up In A New Area

You know, it's funny to me that you asked this particular question! I just happen to be about to embark on exactly such a venture. We have our house on the market and will be moving from Nevada to Georgia, approximately 2500 miles away. We have known for some time that we want to move to that state, because my brother recently relocated and is living there, as is my Father. We didn't want to live in the same town though, just close enough to visit and to be on hand in case of an emergency, but not close enough for them to be underfoot. So we started looking at maps and checking out areas that looked interesting to us. After looking hard at several places we decided on one based on the growing job market, the price of real estate, the primary rural atmosphere and the central location between 3 family members who all live between 2 and 4 hours away. So where to go from there? Well, having moved across country to a town where I didn't know a soul once before, I knew that the prospect of doing this again was NOT something that I would enjoy. So I set out to do what I could to meet people before I left. I didn't have many options, not being one to resort to the likes of adultfriendfinder.com or the like. SO I went to myspace and entered in the postal code of the town I was moving to and searched for people within 5 years of my age group. I was pleasantly surprised with the results. My fiance found me a program that would send out mass friends requests and, within a week I had over 400 "friends" in my target town. Now, realistically I knew that I could not expect to be friends or to ever even meet anywhere near all of these people or even half of them, but it was a place to start! So I posted a message on my page stating that I was moving to this town and that I was looking to meet friends there before I moved. I was absolutely floored by the kind responses that I met with! I learned so much about the area that I wanted to move to and started to truly get excited at the prospect! Yes, I met with nay-sayers who asked "Why in the hell would you want to move here?" and with jerks and people who I would never associate with and they were all quickly deleted from my friends list. But I've met a couple who my fiance and I will very likely be friends with, as well as a woman who I have already started to build a close friendship with. We have met real estate agents and have many prospects there, including job leads. Our plan is, upon selling our home, to secure a short term rental, which we already have a lead on. (One of our new friends there owns a home that is a rental property.) We will load up all we own and go ahead with our plans. We will purchase a piece of property outright when we get there, either with a home that we like or with the intentions of putting a home on it. Either way, it's an adventure! The job thing will solve itself, as it always does.

Welcome back Wolfie! Hope it went well. I moved to another coumtry lol. Iknew no-one except the man I'd met at the time. I didn't speak the language either I washed dishes and made beds in a hotel at the sea for the summer season and started learning the language. Then I stayed lol.

Wolfie it is hard I mean I moved here last year from Doncaster but I am on Disability so that helped me and it was on Doctors recommendation to move to a cleaner Area Now the way to do it is that you try and find a job in the Area and explain that you will be moving there and for the time being give them the Address you are at Your biggest Problem is when you get job. Unless you have money to stay in a bed and Breakfast you have nowhere to live but I do know that a few Employments would accept that xxxx

I've done that twice, the first time was just to another city. However, I was working a job where I could do it all online, so my job moved with me. I went to the new city off and on for about 4 months, looking at apts, and getting a feel for that city. Once I got moved in to my new place, I then put in applications and found another job. The second time was a bit different circumstances, I was moving 1600 miles across country, but I did have a place to live, I was moving in with my s/o, however, the job that I was going to transfer to didn't work out, so I had to find another job once I got there, I was lucky enough to find one within 3 months. However, I did have some money saved back since I didn't want to depend on him to pay for everything, I'm very independent. But it does pose a lot of issues to move like that, you just have to get creative and if you are determined you can do it.

I can answer the chicken or the egg easier that I can answer your discussion. I just can't see it. It's your classic catch 22. If it were me personally making this decision I would make a friend wherever it was I was moving to that would allow me to use their address or would give me a reference to a landlord. I would never just up and move without having someone where ever it was I was going that would be there to support me.

You are bringing the whole world to a precipice. You need to have some imagination and some more drive. I arrived in London at the age of 19 with only one suitcase and 8 English Pounds. I found a room in Pimlico for 15 shillings a week, this was 1950. The room was smaller than my bathroom here in my present house. I arrived on a Friday, I went to the labour office , I must say I had a vey good education. On Monday I got my first job for 5 pounds a week with a Publishing House near the BBC in London , the job was in the prestigious HARLEY STREET. Think positive and always keep close to your church, that is if you are religious. Good luck.

you would probably have to visit the place first. Try to get a job before you actually move there. Once you get a job tell them you need so much time to move all your stuff, like maybe a week or two. Then you use all the money you have now to find a place in that town and then you move. Sounds so easy doesn't it? lol

I would try and get the job first telling the employer (if he asks) that I just relocated to the area and I am staying at a hotel/motel until I find a place of my own. I mean someone has to understand and give you a break. If that didn't work I would give a fake address to the job and change it later on when I get my apartment.

Welcome to the story of my life wolfie:) yes, it is possible i have done that a few times, but it is not an easy story. i will talk about moving to a new part in the same country, because i really do not feel comfortable talking about how to settle in a new country without being a legite there. i know that i always make sure that i would have atleast 2 months rent and expanses in my bank account whenever i decide to move to a new area. i always write in my resume, the address of my parents, and i state in the same line that i moving now to the area, but still do not have an exact address. so you can give your friends address for mail, and state that you live in the new city but not give the street name. they always understand and ask about it when they phone your cell phone to call you for an interview. about a place to live, i know that you can find appartments for rent in almost every country that you woul like on the net. so you can start looking right away. so the problem is solved. you have enough money for 2 months in your bank account. you look for a flat online and you state your parents address in your resume. :)

Wow you really are trying to get us to work here aren't you sweets! I DID move to a different country and it wasn't difficult - but then again we cheated as my then husband had gotten a job with a huge computer company and not only did we have a lot of support in our move and help to rent a house til our own was built but they paid for all the removals , legal fees etc and all my son and my own expenses (my husband moved before I did) from the minute I left the house we lived in til the moment I arrived in our new location! This included petrol, accomadation, petrol, ferry crossings etc. As for the conundrum of job, home etc I am afraid I have never had to do that before so I cannot help! Sorry! xxxx

That is indeed a tough one, wolfie. It would be helpful if you had enough funds to at least rent a room, say, for a month, until you are able to find work. That would solve the problem of having an address. So, I would work toward saving every penny I could get my hands on to ensure that I could do this on a short-term basis.

Not so Difficult! I lived and worked in Canada for 50 years until I bought a 5th wheel trailer to go behind my truck. Then my wife and I began to travel south in the winter. We checked out Florida, and Arizona, and finally found South Texas. We liked it here in South Texas and after 10 years of pulling the trailer we sold it and bought a mobile here in Alamo, near McAllen Texas. The mobile is 14 by 58 feet, 2 bedrooms and a bath. Its our home away from home. We spend 5 months each winter here. Everything we need is here, so we can travel each way with our small Van.The mobile is situated in a Seniors Park which is a Gated community of between 500 and a thousand people depending on the season. We have many friends here, many of which are Canadian. We buy our Chicken and Eggs just around the block in Walmart. Life is Good isn't It?

I can totally sympathize with you on this subject. I moved to another province about 6 years ago but I was fortunite enough to have a husband that got transferred there so we had somewhere to live and he had a job so only I had to look for a job. I don't know what the answer is to your problem other than you need to make sure you have quite a bit of money in your bank account to tide you over till things work out. You could rent a motel room by the month till you find a job and then a place to live. But this would be expensive so this is the reason you would need to have some saved money before you move. I don't know that you have to have a permanit address when applying for a new job, but I do know you need to have a phone number, but that is easy to do, just get a cell phone.