So... 3 days ago I made a dicision to live in my suv 4 nights a week. This was based on 2 factors I work 120 miles from where I live becuase the job I have does not exist in where myself and my family resides.
Housing is cheap in the county (rural areas) so I travel to the heart of the rich and famous by the sea. I was staying with a friend who was charging 200 bucks bi weekly or 400 a month that could go to other things not to mention gas money as he lived 30 miles from where I work.
30 miles one way x 10 times a week = 300 miles = another $ 60.00 in gas x 2 weeks = $120.00 in gas every paycheck plus rent
total of 520.00 in gas and rent?!!. what if I was able to pocket that money and use it to pay off old bebt or take the kids to Disneyland or get the wife something... whatever. So why don't I move my family down where I work... the house we currently reside in a 3 bedroom 1 bath which is $795 a month + utilities (another reason we are going to live off the grid, that is for another post at a later time.) You can barely get a 1 bedroom apartment for $795 around where I work.
Plus me and my wife are country dwellers and she comes from a farming background. I too have a bloodline of dairy farmers that have roots in Pennsylvania. I go to school ( online to finish my AS ) and my wife is a full time mother of our 4 children (3 girls and 1 boy). I work full time and still we scrape by. Things will change and get better. Stay positive stay the course and good things will happen.
Housing is cheap in the county (rural areas) so I travel to the heart of the rich and famous by the sea. I was staying with a friend who was charging 200 bucks bi weekly or 400 a month that could go to other things not to mention gas money as he lived 30 miles from where I work.
30 miles one way x 10 times a week = 300 miles = another $ 60.00 in gas x 2 weeks = $120.00 in gas every paycheck plus rent
total of 520.00 in gas and rent?!!. what if I was able to pocket that money and use it to pay off old bebt or take the kids to Disneyland or get the wife something... whatever. So why don't I move my family down where I work... the house we currently reside in a 3 bedroom 1 bath which is $795 a month + utilities (another reason we are going to live off the grid, that is for another post at a later time.) You can barely get a 1 bedroom apartment for $795 around where I work.
Plus me and my wife are country dwellers and she comes from a farming background. I too have a bloodline of dairy farmers that have roots in Pennsylvania. I go to school ( online to finish my AS ) and my wife is a full time mother of our 4 children (3 girls and 1 boy). I work full time and still we scrape by. Things will change and get better. Stay positive stay the course and good things will happen.
