Need Advice on Moving out of state

[JadeRN7]

This might be long so please bear with me. I graduate nursing school in May. I live in CT but for years I couldn't wait to move away, somewhere warmer, but not where it's always hot. Somewhere safer, where hurricanes, tornadoes, alligators, blizzards are highly uncommon. My problem is that if I was single it would be easier. I'm married with 3 children, 1 in middle school the other 2 in elementary. I'm still pretty young (28) and would like to live the rest of my life not wishing I was somewhere else.

My husband has been at his job since high school, he's older than me and his skills are not on a degree or certificate so if he leaves he'll basically have to start over. He doesn't love his job but he's afraid of starting over b/c this is all he's known since high school.

As for my kids, I live in the suburbs and would love to move to the suburbs just somewhere warmer, somewhere nice between here and Florida, I guess. Any ideas? My husband's afraid of moving anywhere off the east coast, he must think people fall off on the other side.

Anyway, I really need advice because eventually we want to buy a house. Is it worth staying just until we can get a loan to buy a house (because his 15 year work history with one job looks pretty stable to loan processors)? And then that means that after working for a year or two, we'd move and I'd have to start all over again instead of us both starting over at the same time. Plus what will I have to do to obtain a licence in the new state? Any advice?

[suzanne4, RN]

You just ned to allpy for a license by endorsement, provided that you will have a license in your home state by the time that you move.

It is actually quite easy to do. Remember that nurses move all of the time.:)

[GrnHonu99, RN]

what about Georgia or the Carolinas?

It's hard to move and start over, good luck:)

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

A number of the western states have a pretty varied climate. I know California best, but Washington which is also on the west coast is supposed to be pretty nice. California isn't just desert--that's the southern part. There are lots of places on higher ground that never get snow. Arizona's the same way. I've talked to a lot of people that rave about New Mexico. I drove through Albuquerque when they were having snow! one time and they had to close the freeway--and this is desert.

My mother wanted to get out of the cold (we're from Ohio) as well. One day after my father was retired, she and him decided to "do it" and she pretty much picked up and moved out here to California. We went to the high desert (4,000 feet above sea level). People have swamp coolers rather than air conditioners there to keep their homes cool. There was always a breeze during the summer, even when it was 100 degrees. During the winter, the days were great, but it got down to 30 degrees at night.

I don't think there's any place that doesn't have some sort of natural weather occurrences that people just don't like. In the desert we have sand storms. Don't let the song, "It never rains in California" fool you. It rains in the winter months, even in the desert.

Once you start working as a nurse you should be able to get a mortgage through a credit union loan pretty quickly, a benefit of your employer. Nurses are in that group of professionals that mortgage companies, car dealerships and credit card companies like to hit up for business because they know we have a good steady income. They must get our addresses from the state board for their mail solicitations.