monthly outcome more than monthly income for years is draining my account

[2Design]

Feeling like I need to move out of here - but to where
Where can I find decent housing for about $500 a month in a safe neighborhood
Jobs I apply for either never hear or go and don't get picked

Standard reject letters for year of over qualified

I apply for jobs I am qualified for and still don't get picked

Ageism
Just not working

I don't like where I live
Have a problem with Palmettos bugs when it rains a lot

Keep thinking of going West
How about Flagstaff or Las Vegas or Huntington Beach, Calif

Just panicky tonight

Looking at Mobile homes but to buy you are stuck with monthly lot rent for life
Rentals are not great

Just feeling at wits end AGAIN

My stuff is still in storage for six years because I have not felt I had a safe place to live for long and no sense moving the stuff out to have to move back in

Rents are higher by $200 in the neighborhood I live in
I live in a safe neighborhood

Just need to talk to the wind

[loli phabay]

1. for five hundred a month you can get a place in the boonies

Nothing safer or ni er than a house in the woods or mountains.

[2Design]

2. Gas price would eat up any savings

living alone in the woods does not feel safe to me and puts me miles away from anything and gas at close to $4 is a lot

[loli phabay]

3. you do know that you can live in the boonies and still be close to town

The woods are safer than you can imagine apart from the odd wildlife. Most people are armed so you tend to be left alone if thats wbat you want but theres also a hell of a social scene if your into it. As to gas prices say your fifteen miles from town like i am then even with a suv its only a gallon one way so eight bucks round trip. Less if you make friends and combine trips. If as you say you need to seriously lower your costs then its much cheaper living of the beaten track.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Northwest Arkansas?

Relatively low unemployment
Relatively low cost of living (also relatively low wages)
Four seasons, but not so much snow.

Most neighborhoods are safe, but apartment complexes can be iffy (mainly problems with vandalism, theft). Fayetteville is the most cosmopolitan city in the region because of the University of Arkansas. Bentonville (home to Wal-Mart) has some pretty decent neighborhoods. Rogers has a lot of affordable neighborhoods. Springdale is a mainly working-class town, and Rogers is largely working class but is also becoming a rich man's playground. There are also small towns like Farmington and Elkins, which are quasi-suburbs of Fayetteville.

[mnhtnbb]

5. Don't go to Vegas--highest unemployment in the country--CA is VERY expensive.

Flagstaff, I don't know, but I recently talked to a woman who retired to Santa Fe from
Chapel Hill, NC (where I am) and she wants to come back.

Where do you live now? What kind of work would you like to do?

Have you done any research to determine unemployment rates in areas that appeal to you--go on Craigslist for
that area and check out rents/prices for housing?

Hang in there.

[KurtNYC]

6. If you would consider splitting a place with someone then $500

would get you into a nice place ($1000 2bdrm). Utilities would be half, etc.

Hang in there!

[seabeyond]

7. for about 3 yrs. that is the tough, of today. we have had about the same expense for over 15 yrs...

nothing new. but, all expense has gone up and income is less. hasnt made it easy. that money saved, is being used for expense.