Last night, Husband came home and told me that he was offered a job by someone that afternoon. I said, “Yeah, whatever.” He says, “I’m serious. How do you feel about Des Moines?” Long story short, he was offered a sales job in America’s heartland, a position which usually has quite a large salary. As in about 3 times what we see now.*
So here’s a question to throw out there:
Would you move somewhere crazy** in exchange for a large salary?
I have some experience with this, because my husband once considered a job here, living two hours from the nearest city, in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest. He tried to convince me to move our family here by telling me I would have a maid and a cook and a pool (“Really? Does it come with its own anaconda?”). We still live in Philly, thankyouverymuch. The price was certainly not right for that move, but I’m still open to moving somewhere new…..
*Before my mother and sister-in-law have heart attacks, we are not moving to Iowa. He said thanks for the offer, but this is not a good time for us to move.
**Please do not be offended if you live in Iowa. One person’s crazy place could be Iowa and another person’s crazy place could be New Jersey and anothers could be China. We’re all different!
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I’ve often wondered what we would do in that situation. I guess it all does boil down to timing, but it’s hard to leave your comfort zone where your friends and family are. The $$$ would certainly be tempting, though!
I’d go just about anywhere for the fun of moving to a new place. My main concern is being too far away from our families. Funny you should bring this up. I’m currently having a discussion with friends on an email group about my husband’s opportunity to eventually go to Seattle and take over his boss’s position. It would be huge in terms of career, but I just don’t think it’s worth it to be that far away. GLAD to hear you aren’t moving!
um, yes my heart attack just subsided, thank you.
although, money is nice
SEATTLE?!?!?!
now i’ve had the heart attack.
I think you should do it! How exciting! I am dying to move I wish I could get a job offer somewhere. I would be out of here in an instant!
well, honestly, for the right price, i probably would move to des moines. but a bigger deciding factor was that my husband works with these sales guys all the time. they make an insane amount of money, but are on call 24-7, can rarely even take vacations and travel a ton.
apparently most of them are single or divorced because of it…..
plus, it wouldn’t really be a step up for him career-wise. more of a step sideways.
My hubby just recently turned down a great job opportunity (meaning really good $’s!) in Calgary, Alberta. All our family is here in Nova Scotia, and for right now, we’re content here. It wasn’t the right time for a major move for us. Which isn’t to say that it won’t be right for us someday!
I made it for three years in North Dakota so I figure I can pretty much survive anywhere. Except maybe Las Vegas. I’m not a fan of Las Vegas.
I upped sticks and moved to London about 6 years ago. We’ll probably be in Australia by the end of the summer.
The hubby was told that he could triple his wages if he moved to LA…by the end of the week. We considered it, actually, until we couldn’t get a ‘puppy passport’ in time. Besides, dachshunds don’t have long enough legs to truly get on in the plastic capital of the world.
Once you move thousands of miles away from your friends and family, what’s another thousand miles?
true. i actually think that a move to england or australia would be an easier decision — since we’d totally love to move there. its the places that weren’t on the radar that make us pause. (like brazil. that wasn’t quite what i was picturing when i said i’d like to live in another country…)
back when we had only two kids, we moved to england. it was supposed to be for a year. and we did make some cash out of it, but it was dreary, depressing and hard to get to know people. and i LOVE england (have lived and visited there before). there are other factors in moving of course. i don’t know if i would do it again. if i were to do that england move again i would change so many things. but it was fun, we saw as much as we could, but it was only 6 months. i missed my family and friends TOO much.