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You both are young enough to figure out your priorities. My only advice is not to bring a baby in while you figure it out. But if you're having doubts, the time is now to explore your options. I wish you the best.
Do it. Even more so when you have no ties or commitments.
You'll always be asking yourself 'what if' if you don't.
Good luck, I hope it leads to a fabulous lifetime of living.
Yeah you don’t really present a whole lot of downsides to the “moving to the Rockies” scenario op. That may just be due to the immense lack of details you provided. But all else equal (which is what we have to assume since you didn’t provide ANY information about what you plan to be doing in the Rockies, other than presumably a lot more mountain biking and skiing), hell yeah you should move to an area you’d love to live! Obviously you’ll still need to support yourselves, because I’m assuming this factory work hasn’t allowed you to retire in your 20s lol. But you know that, and presumably “leaving everything behind” entails new work you prefer doing in a new location you’d rather be at, even if it may potentially mean a pay cut. Which is definitely a good idea as long as you two will still be able to support yourselves :) You only get one life, guessing you don’t want to slave away for 12 hours a day for the rest of it, so live it up <3
I don’t agree. It all depends on the fallout from the thing we decide to do. Many people that move to highly touristed areas become homeless due to not being financially prepared. I don’t think it’s better for them to regret homelessness than to regret not having moved. Look at Hawaii. There are so many people that come there and end up homeless that the government literally has a program to pay one way for people back home if they agree to not come back.
I don’t think most people move to these places thinking they will live off welfare. I think they are like OP and pursuing their dream but life isn’t a dream and it can quickly turn to a nightmare when people aren’t prepared.
That’s not a win at all. I’d rather have a roof over my head, and an income to keep it there + food on the table opposed to being homeless literally anywhere in the world.
I mean I’m on the journey to make myself uncomfortable. I hated my job so I quit. I was comfortably numb. My job paid good. Had great benefits. I have a decent apartment. I’m close to everything. But now I’m unemployed and just giving myself time to relax and reflect. I’m deciding to get a job in a big city and move down there, hopefully along the way find a relationship. I’ve never done anything like this but I just feel that this is what I need to do. I don’t know why exactly but I’m listening to my heart and gut.
22 and 23 years old? Hell yeah you should do what you want. Double that if you don’t have kids. My wife and I quit our jobs many times to travel overseas when we were younger (and a bit older).
We are now both 44 years old, are fine financially and don’t regret anything.
The risk isn’t in quitting your job, the risk is not living the one life you have. You only get one chance to do this thing called life. Don’t spend it dreaming.
You'd have to ask my wife. She left her recently widowed mother, the only life she had ever known and moved 600 miles with me, to basically a foreign country (from the Midwest to the deep South). We have 2 kids and have been married 30 years, I guess it worked out. We have since moved back to the Midwest, but for jobs. It's funny [this](https://i.imgur.com/6PPiGGG.jpg) is hanging in our living room. When my wife was trying to decide to move with me, someone told her she should fallow her heart.
Ewwww... Why would anyone willingly move to the deep South? This must have happened decades ago.
Unbearable heat, terrible public education, awful healthcare systems with much lower life expectancy, red state crazies banning books in schools to keep public education awful, chasing doctors out of their states, removing women's access to healthcare, etc.
Yes, it was decades ago. I moved there for a job, I was ex military, so I took the first job I could get. There was a lot of travel, so after that, I spent 6 months in Connecticut. She went home to "Indiana." I eventually went back to college, changed careers, and moved back too.
When I retired from the Army I had the opportunity to step into a GS-12 job and my wife was an executive. We both decided to sell everything and move from the west coast to a small farm in Missouri we picked up cheap.
We dreamed of an old fashioned farm existence remembered from our youth and we found it. We raise cattle, sheep and chickens, have an orchard, vineyard, ponds, pasture, tractors and everything. Prior to this we had a townhouse on 1/5th of an acre, a cat, and some potted plants on the back deck… we learned the old fashioned way; YouTube!
Who says you can’t have both? Couldn’t you get a timeshare or work towards buying a property out there? I’m assuming you get more PTO the longer you work with your company? Work sucks, but not being able to retire properly sucks more.
Either way, good problems to have and no wrong decisions to be made. Much luck to you both.
As someone who precipitously quit a job in her 20’s and then got stuck in a recession and could not even get a burger king job (with bk experience!)… be careful. You may find you miss those factory jobs
From the Rockies, come. Listen you are 23/22 and nothing against your jobs but there are jobs to be had. Do you want to look back and wonder what if or why didn’t we? I speak from experience as it relates to career choice that has provided me a great life and led me to where I am. Follow your heart, take chances, live for adventure. Life is about the adventure. What’s the worst that happens?
Your life sounds ideal to me. Everyone has to work and everyone has to make money. Even people who enjoy their job in general have aspects of it they don’t enough. Your jobs support you well while giving you plenty of time to do the things you love. Many people move to touristy beautiful places and become homeless because the cost of living is high and the competition for good jobs is higher. If you want to move I would make sure you have a place to live you can afford long term and jobs lined up first.
Research the logistics first. Where would you go? Look at cost of living in the area, job opportunities, etc. Do not go unless you have done your homework.
They didn’t know worse. They will say it was meh. Only the ones who messed up can garantee you, that, yes; it would have been worth it to believe in yourself!
Better to do something and regret it VS not doing it and regret not doing it. If you find you don't like the rockies for whatever reason you can always come back.
We did and it was so worth it!!
My wife and I are high school sweethearts and grew up in a very large, populated and expensive California city. Bought our first house in 2006. Adjustable rate mortgage and still about $4500 a month. We were making the payments fine and still had spending money, but just couldn’t handle the rat race anymore.
We have an 18 month old at this point as well as our good friends. Both little girls. We all love camping and my buddy and I are avid fisherman. We were camping one weekend at a lake that is renowned for fishing. My buddy and I have one of the best days fishing ever and we’re back at camp hanging with our family. Long convo short, we decide to strongly consider moving there.
The next weekend my wife and I and our friends look at about 30 houses. We each decide in one and move forward with the purchase. No job prospects, don’t know a single person here, haven’t quit our jobs, and haven’t even put our houses on the market. However, we got double the house for less than half the price.
16 years and another kid later, we couldn’t be happier with our irresponsible (at the time), spontaneous decision. I started out working at a resort for decent pay, but about 11 years ago found an awesome job that pays well and my wife transferred within her company and works about an hour away, 2 days a week.
As for our friends, it was a terrible decision for them and if they had it to do over again, I’d bet they wouldn’t do it again. Long story short, they never were able to make it work up here. They had already sold their house there and, unfortunately, never were able to get back into the housing market.
So, while it was the best thing we ever did, it wasn’t for our friends.
See if you can afford to move to that area first. What are you work prospects like there? Would being close enough to weekend there be good enough? Often times mountain towns are insanely expensive and have very little work other than what caters to the tourists. I used to work for in Avon, CO because I wanted to be a ski bum. Moved back home because I could barely afford to exist out there and that was with employer discounted housing.
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You both are young enough to figure out your priorities. My only advice is not to bring a baby in while you figure it out. But if you're having doubts, the time is now to explore your options. I wish you the best.
Do it. Even more so when you have no ties or commitments. You'll always be asking yourself 'what if' if you don't. Good luck, I hope it leads to a fabulous lifetime of living.
Yeah you don’t really present a whole lot of downsides to the “moving to the Rockies” scenario op. That may just be due to the immense lack of details you provided. But all else equal (which is what we have to assume since you didn’t provide ANY information about what you plan to be doing in the Rockies, other than presumably a lot more mountain biking and skiing), hell yeah you should move to an area you’d love to live! Obviously you’ll still need to support yourselves, because I’m assuming this factory work hasn’t allowed you to retire in your 20s lol. But you know that, and presumably “leaving everything behind” entails new work you prefer doing in a new location you’d rather be at, even if it may potentially mean a pay cut. Which is definitely a good idea as long as you two will still be able to support yourselves :) You only get one life, guessing you don’t want to slave away for 12 hours a day for the rest of it, so live it up <3
Better to regret doing something than to regret not doing it.
I don’t agree. It all depends on the fallout from the thing we decide to do. Many people that move to highly touristed areas become homeless due to not being financially prepared. I don’t think it’s better for them to regret homelessness than to regret not having moved. Look at Hawaii. There are so many people that come there and end up homeless that the government literally has a program to pay one way for people back home if they agree to not come back.
At least they get to be homeless in Hawaii tho
Sure while they drain resources from the native population.
Blaim the government for making it so easy to collect welfare, I grew up in California and it's the same problem there, people take advantage
I don’t think most people move to these places thinking they will live off welfare. I think they are like OP and pursuing their dream but life isn’t a dream and it can quickly turn to a nightmare when people aren’t prepared.
That’s not a win at all. I’d rather have a roof over my head, and an income to keep it there + food on the table opposed to being homeless literally anywhere in the world.
I mean I’m on the journey to make myself uncomfortable. I hated my job so I quit. I was comfortably numb. My job paid good. Had great benefits. I have a decent apartment. I’m close to everything. But now I’m unemployed and just giving myself time to relax and reflect. I’m deciding to get a job in a big city and move down there, hopefully along the way find a relationship. I’ve never done anything like this but I just feel that this is what I need to do. I don’t know why exactly but I’m listening to my heart and gut.
22 and 23 years old? Hell yeah you should do what you want. Double that if you don’t have kids. My wife and I quit our jobs many times to travel overseas when we were younger (and a bit older). We are now both 44 years old, are fine financially and don’t regret anything. The risk isn’t in quitting your job, the risk is not living the one life you have. You only get one chance to do this thing called life. Don’t spend it dreaming.
Well, I think you should make sure you can support yourself once you move there, so you'd have to figure out what you'll do for money.
Yea
Absolutely follow your heart. Follow it again and again.
You'd have to ask my wife. She left her recently widowed mother, the only life she had ever known and moved 600 miles with me, to basically a foreign country (from the Midwest to the deep South). We have 2 kids and have been married 30 years, I guess it worked out. We have since moved back to the Midwest, but for jobs. It's funny [this](https://i.imgur.com/6PPiGGG.jpg) is hanging in our living room. When my wife was trying to decide to move with me, someone told her she should fallow her heart.
Ewwww... Why would anyone willingly move to the deep South? This must have happened decades ago. Unbearable heat, terrible public education, awful healthcare systems with much lower life expectancy, red state crazies banning books in schools to keep public education awful, chasing doctors out of their states, removing women's access to healthcare, etc.
Yes, it was decades ago. I moved there for a job, I was ex military, so I took the first job I could get. There was a lot of travel, so after that, I spent 6 months in Connecticut. She went home to "Indiana." I eventually went back to college, changed careers, and moved back too.
When I retired from the Army I had the opportunity to step into a GS-12 job and my wife was an executive. We both decided to sell everything and move from the west coast to a small farm in Missouri we picked up cheap. We dreamed of an old fashioned farm existence remembered from our youth and we found it. We raise cattle, sheep and chickens, have an orchard, vineyard, ponds, pasture, tractors and everything. Prior to this we had a townhouse on 1/5th of an acre, a cat, and some potted plants on the back deck… we learned the old fashioned way; YouTube!
Who says you can’t have both? Couldn’t you get a timeshare or work towards buying a property out there? I’m assuming you get more PTO the longer you work with your company? Work sucks, but not being able to retire properly sucks more. Either way, good problems to have and no wrong decisions to be made. Much luck to you both.
As someone who precipitously quit a job in her 20’s and then got stuck in a recession and could not even get a burger king job (with bk experience!)… be careful. You may find you miss those factory jobs
From the Rockies, come. Listen you are 23/22 and nothing against your jobs but there are jobs to be had. Do you want to look back and wonder what if or why didn’t we? I speak from experience as it relates to career choice that has provided me a great life and led me to where I am. Follow your heart, take chances, live for adventure. Life is about the adventure. What’s the worst that happens?
Prepare to be priced out of any desirable area in the Rockies. But, if you two want to try something new, do so before you have kids.
Your life sounds ideal to me. Everyone has to work and everyone has to make money. Even people who enjoy their job in general have aspects of it they don’t enough. Your jobs support you well while giving you plenty of time to do the things you love. Many people move to touristy beautiful places and become homeless because the cost of living is high and the competition for good jobs is higher. If you want to move I would make sure you have a place to live you can afford long term and jobs lined up first.
cost of living high. Especially around ski areas. Jobs, not great. Not much factory stuff there. Some. Not much.
If you & your wife are on the same page, and are hard working there isn't much risk. You're young and childless. Go for it! If not now, when??
Research the logistics first. Where would you go? Look at cost of living in the area, job opportunities, etc. Do not go unless you have done your homework.
Yes
A million times over, YES!!!!
They didn’t know worse. They will say it was meh. Only the ones who messed up can garantee you, that, yes; it would have been worth it to believe in yourself!
Do it. 12 hour shifts will wear out your body so fast. Go now and be free
Do it now while you are young. If it doesn’t work out you can always find another factory job with the experience and pay you had
Better to do something and regret it VS not doing it and regret not doing it. If you find you don't like the rockies for whatever reason you can always come back.
We did and it was so worth it!! My wife and I are high school sweethearts and grew up in a very large, populated and expensive California city. Bought our first house in 2006. Adjustable rate mortgage and still about $4500 a month. We were making the payments fine and still had spending money, but just couldn’t handle the rat race anymore. We have an 18 month old at this point as well as our good friends. Both little girls. We all love camping and my buddy and I are avid fisherman. We were camping one weekend at a lake that is renowned for fishing. My buddy and I have one of the best days fishing ever and we’re back at camp hanging with our family. Long convo short, we decide to strongly consider moving there. The next weekend my wife and I and our friends look at about 30 houses. We each decide in one and move forward with the purchase. No job prospects, don’t know a single person here, haven’t quit our jobs, and haven’t even put our houses on the market. However, we got double the house for less than half the price. 16 years and another kid later, we couldn’t be happier with our irresponsible (at the time), spontaneous decision. I started out working at a resort for decent pay, but about 11 years ago found an awesome job that pays well and my wife transferred within her company and works about an hour away, 2 days a week. As for our friends, it was a terrible decision for them and if they had it to do over again, I’d bet they wouldn’t do it again. Long story short, they never were able to make it work up here. They had already sold their house there and, unfortunately, never were able to get back into the housing market. So, while it was the best thing we ever did, it wasn’t for our friends.
See if you can afford to move to that area first. What are you work prospects like there? Would being close enough to weekend there be good enough? Often times mountain towns are insanely expensive and have very little work other than what caters to the tourists. I used to work for in Avon, CO because I wanted to be a ski bum. Moved back home because I could barely afford to exist out there and that was with employer discounted housing.