Kittycool

Honestly, since I have dual citizenship in another country way cheaper than here I was considering moving there to get back to my roots. There aren’t many people of my culture where I live and some become hostile when they hear my nationality because people still have Cold War era propaganda (you guess which country). And from researching the houses in that country the houses are the cost of a manufactured house in California except these homes are near capitals, but the education most importantly is free there if you have can pass a certain test, and tuition if you don’t pass it is super affordable. It would be extremely hard to move across the country due to all my stuff and the fact that I have never lived anywhere else than California before, but the prices for housing is becoming too high, and the pay rate isn’t matching it. At least in that other country most people are able to buy an at least an apartment of their own within their life time and not have to go without a huge chunk of salary just to get it. I guess if the prices never stop rising and no affordable housing is built in Cali I will have to move ?

Off topic a bit, but I read you went to job corp for your LVN? I was interested in the CNA to LVN route they offer, How was your experience there? How difficult was it to get into the LVN program? My local campus offers LVN at a partnered community college, so can you take additional college credits outside the trade while you are in the program?

I’m a new poster here, hope this is the correct way to post a question since this is a new format for me. I’m on my way to becoming an LVN in CA, and everyone is already pushing me to do my RN. I was able to get the LVN certification for free basically through a program, and I like the lower responsibilities I have compared to RN’s. My true goal is to own my own home since I grew up very housing insecure, so if I were to work overtime’s and such would I be able to have the income necessary to buy a house on this salary (plus I look to apply to the first time homebuyer programs where you pay 3% down so would that also help?) If I can get my goal of home ownership I’ll be all good as I personally do not want to continue my education to RN seeing how difficult the program was for LVN and would instead try to go to WGU to get a teaching degree. If you have any home buying experience as an LVN please feel free to share every single detail about it so I know what to expect. Thank you in advance!