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
Austin is the blue part of Texas. You can just make him think he is moving to red. I would never move to Amarillo myself. Dallas is about as far north in TX I would go.
Specializes in School Nursing, Public Health Nurse.
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!
I would love to move to Portland! Or maybe retire there. Oregon is definitely on my list if Texas doesn't work out.
I live in Amarillo, TX. Moved here about 3.5 years ago. Be prepared for friendly people who say hello in the grocery store and gentlemen who hold doors open for you and take their hats off when they meet you! Everyone is alllll about their guns, so after living here a few years you'll become a Red
oooh the weather... not so great. It's very windy in the spring/summer and cold as hell in the winter with 2-4 blizzards that come through that can shut the whole town down.
Not much big city life here in Amarillo, but the city is expanding massively and new stores, restaurants, activities are popping up everywhere.
It's a great place to raise a family, real sense of community here, lots of churches etc.
As for the hospitals, the major ones are BSA and NWTH. Pay is about the same at both hospitals. Expect over worked nurses with little pay, but thats anywhere in Amarillo.
Cost of living is decent, lots of new neighborhoods to live in on the south side of town. Small houses though, 1700-1800 feet for maybe 170-180k.
Tell em, n1, what lady wouldn't want a door held open for them? Did we mention Texas residents are gun owners?
I have to say, I do like this. A lot. Not the guns, the door thing.
I also like holding doors open FOR folk, men and women, as long as they say "Thank you" and don't sail through like they are the Queen of the May and I am there for their convenience.
I have some girl friends who think it's an insult to women for a man to get the door for her, or say ladies first, or offer a seat. I've never understood that.
I teach my boys to always offer a seat to an older person or a woman. It may be old fashioned, but I like it, and I like when people tell me how nice my kids are.
I've ripped my kids a new "you know what" for opening a door and entering before someone else, for not saying thank you, and other non-polite behavior. They all know how to act now and many times when the 7 of us have entered a restaurant you can see the dread on the people's faces at the table near us. But many times people have come over and complimented us as to how good behaved the kids are. One time this old guy came over and passed out quarters to all the kids.
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Austin is the blue part of Texas. You can just make him think he is moving to red. I would never move to Amarillo myself. Dallas is about as far north in TX I would go.