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- brandelec
Hello NT family,
I'm currently working for a small up and coming start-up in Vancouver. Pay and position was more than i was looking for after getting laid off last month. Prayers were answered and I'm starting to settle down.Here's the curve ball..
I get an offer from another company to relocate to small town of 90k-
company specs:
-established company w/ local, national clients
-going to go back to working in a team
-work is a little drier but still good
-gonna start as senior designer (but def. room to advance)city specs:
-lower cost of living (gonna be a couple of steps closer to buying a house)
-warmest/driest city in canada
-3.5 hour drive from vancouver
-lots of fishing, skiing, golfing, etcJust wondering what a new life in a small town will be like. Some NT'ers have made this move before.. any advice
I'd be leaving home, friends, family, great job, great city for dawson's creek
what would you do?
- Llyod0
take it. start ups suck and if there's any trouble you'll be the first to go.
- brandelec0
I'm going to make the drive out two saturdays from now to check out the town
i'll take pics
- Llyod0
I've worked at two start ups (one as a 3d artist and the other as a web designer). You should be able to tell how sturdy the place is.
- edd-e0
i think there is more than 90k people living on my block, i cant imagine life with just that amount of people...
eaach to their own!!
good luck!!
- wordsinmouth0
i live in a town of 20 k people + 10 k of college students and it's not bad
- brandelec0
its very tempting because living on the wet coast, vancity is so depressing when fall, winter comes around
right now, that town is comparable to florida
- tommyo0
I would LOVE to move to a small town...I just want to find a proper female to settle down with first...lord knows I'd get so horny I'd end up marrying some girl with a mustache.
- brandelec0
i hear ya tommyo
my girl is all for it.. dreams of a house with a yard, 5 min drive to work, little league baseball, bc bud, tupperware parties.. tupperwares full of bc bud
- brandelec0
one of them could be my kid in 20 years
- AndyRoss0
Try it!
You can always move back.
- madirish0
i would go. Calgary is pretty cool.... but Banff is cooler. ;)
- lvl_130
I'd be leaving home, friends, family, great job, great city for dawson's creek
what would you do?
brandelec
(Oct 22 07, 15:43)because of that part of your post i would have had some doubts...
but....as they say, you only live once. your girl is all for it. it's something new. there is growth potential. brings you closer to buying a house rather than renting.
so what the hell are you waiting for?!
and as someone mentioned, you can always move back!
- lvl_130
oh, and good luck!
- Sickman0
you talking about osoyoos?
if so do it - great little town. i know poeple moving there and if i had the chance i would as well.
- horton0
hey brandelec. i was a complete urbanite and moved from vancouver downtown eastside to a small island of 5,000 people. got a house and an acre of land to keep me busy. made the decision on a total whim. no looking back, no regrets whatsoever.
try to consider the move more so as a lifestyle decision rather than a strategic career move.
for me it was really liberating to finally be rooted somewhere where i could still see myself in 20 years.
btw.. just curious, are we talking Dawson Creek or where in BC?
- Jaline0
my girl is all for it.. dreams of a house with a yard, 5 min drive to work, little league baseball, bc bud, tupperware parties.. tupperwares full of bc bud
brandelec
(Oct 22 07, 16:34)That's basically the suburbs (like where I live), not necessarily a small town. But I see where you're getting at.
This is why I think Ottawa is perfect. It's large, but not so huge that everything is busy all the time. So if I were you I would go for the smaller town, but it really depends on your preference and what works for you right now in your life. Big cities are great too...but if you want to get more settled down (doesn't necessarily mean marriage...it could also just mean you want to have a stable job, finances, and living arrangement), smaller towns are probably best.
You could move back if you want to, as mentioned above. The best part is that your girlfriend is into it. And yes, as horton said, if you can see yourself there in future years then it's probably the best move.
- Sickman0
sometimes i miss regina. yep i said it - i miss regina.
- horton0
i needs to know location. dawson creek is not 90k.
warm, mountains, golf.. you must be talking kamloops... ?
- horton0
yup it's gotta be kloops:
http://www.venturekamloops.com/c…
add endless km's of rolling singletrack/ mtn bike trails to your list of perks.
- slappy0
Sounds good to me, I would move. I live and work in a city albeit a small one and I would love to work in a small town.