As we segue into June and Summer, we are faced with very different challenges and obstacles than we encountered when we first arrived in Washington a little more than a year ago.
While we are cozily ensconced in our current location, dilemmas are starting to rear their ambivalent heads.
1. Although the new terms of the rental lease are not fully explained and set, we will be beginning a month-to-month lease August 1, meaning we should be prepared to move possibly at any time, even before late - December or early January when the BK13 should have been expunged from all our credit reports.
2. My husband is not at all secure at his company because the surge support tasks he has been assigned to since February when he rolled off the program that he was originally hired in Colorado to do, is ending sometime in June.
3. Zombie13 contracted Covid-19 at work in early February and has suffered from different degrees of respiratory issues since, including pneumonia, sinusitis and bronchitis as well as seasonal allergies that we believe were brought on by non-ending work related stress. Luckily, since his initial diagnosis, he has been able to work exclusively from home.
He has had an ambivalent relationship with this company from the beginning and he is not at all adverse to leaving what is clearly a toxic work environment for somewhere better. In many ways, this workplace is similar to the notorious R. to which he was tethered for 15 miserable years.
Zombie does have tentative upcoming "placement" interviews but he is hardly enthusiastic and is aware he must start looking outside to other better aerospace brands for a more welcoming fit with even more lucrative pay if we are to remain in this area.
We are both set on moving North (i.e., Issaquah, Sammamish, Bellevue, etc.) where all the gyms, pilates/barre studios, eateries, shopping centers, movie theatres, sports medicine clinics and doctor offices are that we frequent most every day. On average we are in the car 90 minutes -2 hours a day. Without this Renton job, there would simply be no reason to have to live this far South.
Leaving Washington altogether is also a consideration, although we would like to travel more here before moving away.
Buying a house here is simply an absurd aberration since the average mortgage is above $6,000 a month and we like having disposable income and extra money in the bank.
Of course, we haven't forgotten our bitter experience with two Colorado homes both bought and sold, the first directly leading to BK13 and the second to our current state of financial security after five years in purgatory.
So, we have much to ponder and figure out in a relatively short span of time.
While we are cozily ensconced in our current location, dilemmas are starting to rear their ambivalent heads.
1. Although the new terms of the rental lease are not fully explained and set, we will be beginning a month-to-month lease August 1, meaning we should be prepared to move possibly at any time, even before late - December or early January when the BK13 should have been expunged from all our credit reports.
2. My husband is not at all secure at his company because the surge support tasks he has been assigned to since February when he rolled off the program that he was originally hired in Colorado to do, is ending sometime in June.
3. Zombie13 contracted Covid-19 at work in early February and has suffered from different degrees of respiratory issues since, including pneumonia, sinusitis and bronchitis as well as seasonal allergies that we believe were brought on by non-ending work related stress. Luckily, since his initial diagnosis, he has been able to work exclusively from home.
He has had an ambivalent relationship with this company from the beginning and he is not at all adverse to leaving what is clearly a toxic work environment for somewhere better. In many ways, this workplace is similar to the notorious R. to which he was tethered for 15 miserable years.
Zombie does have tentative upcoming "placement" interviews but he is hardly enthusiastic and is aware he must start looking outside to other better aerospace brands for a more welcoming fit with even more lucrative pay if we are to remain in this area.
We are both set on moving North (i.e., Issaquah, Sammamish, Bellevue, etc.) where all the gyms, pilates/barre studios, eateries, shopping centers, movie theatres, sports medicine clinics and doctor offices are that we frequent most every day. On average we are in the car 90 minutes -2 hours a day. Without this Renton job, there would simply be no reason to have to live this far South.
Leaving Washington altogether is also a consideration, although we would like to travel more here before moving away.
Buying a house here is simply an absurd aberration since the average mortgage is above $6,000 a month and we like having disposable income and extra money in the bank.
Of course, we haven't forgotten our bitter experience with two Colorado homes both bought and sold, the first directly leading to BK13 and the second to our current state of financial security after five years in purgatory.
So, we have much to ponder and figure out in a relatively short span of time.
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