The hubby and I have decided to move to Texas in June. Reasons being that as beautiful as California is, do I really want to pay $600k for a 3 bedroom home when I can get a mansion in Texas for the same price? Plus the Bay Area traffic and increasing prices from the Tech Crowd is changing the whole dynamic of the area and I just want out! Hubby is also a Republican and Texas is like Mecca for him
I love my job and the only reason I'm skipping town is for our future and all that jazz, blah, blah, blah. We are looking to move to Amarillo because I have a friend who works at a great hospital there and I think I could get a position there with no acute care. I want to take a refresher class and I'm already talked to a recruiter so I think my prospects are good. However, I love school nursing and I would like to know if anyone could give me some insight on school nursing either in the Panhandle or in Texas in general. I know either way it will be a major pay cut for me, but the drop in the cost of living will be worth it (currently we are renting a 2 bedroom/2 bath townhouse for $2150/month!).
Someone give me advice, hope, or talk me out of going back to the small town, desert life
Specializes in School Nursing, Public Health Nurse.
Dallas girl myself, never owned a monogrammed shirt or rode a horse. Hung out at the malls we have in the area growing up. Have friends that live in Amarillo and shopping is just not as good in them parts. And, they get all of the yucky weather too in the panhandle.
Shopping? As long as there's a Target and I can get my Amazon Prime packages this cowgirl will be happy.
For some reason, Texas has never been on my "wanna move there" list - likely because of the very reasons your hubby is going to love it. I'm way too liberal for my part of the Midwest. Even though I have never been there, I have this crazy desire to move to Oregon - west of Portland, not where the crazy militia guys are getting loads of sex toys and fake memberes (
I will say I had a friend who taught elementary school in Texas (Austin) and she nearly went nuts from the too rich to work helicopter moms, although she and the other staff got ridiculous gifts from kids/parents at Christmas. Like ski trips. Seriously?
I hope whatever you do, you enjoy your new digs and neighbors and job (I'm certain the BBQ will be awesome) and that next year you can tease hubby all about how Trump went down and Bernie won!
coughdrop.2.go, BSN, RN
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