Moving for new job

Would agree that moving for a newspaper gig is pretty damn risky. I'm not sure I'd ever consider moving to another state if the job wasn't secure. Too much can go on in a short period of time when you decide to uproot your family in this career field.

 

As someone else on this site once said, "Don't fuck with happy."

If you're happy where you're at right now, then don't mess it up. Especially for a gig that's so low paying that you'll be moving again anyways, either because the pay's so low, or because someone decided that they're not making enough money, so they whack a few of the worker bees.

 

Agreed. I'm the SE at a small daily, have a mortgage and family ties. I might have considered moving on to a bigger paper but there is next to no security. Too many people I know have found that out the hard way.

 

Here is a thought. Why not rent your current home to cover your mortgage to hang onto the property until the housing market recovers and the economy is better? I know that was my consideration last year, but fortunately I landed a job where I didn't need to relocate.

 

Honestly he should sell his house and try to downsize into something cheaper - like an apartment with a month-to-month lease or at least no penalties with 30 or 60 days notice of leaving -- before he thinks about taking a job somewhere else.

 

That's not working. I know a couple of people who bought homes during the height of the boom who wanted to rent them out for a few years, and they can't charge enough to cover the high mortgage. I know people who are buying foreclosures now, though, who are pulling down a couple of hundred bucks in profit every month, and they should sell the homes for a nice return (even in a down economy).