Ever change states?

We'll probly have to stay with my uncle but the thing is that his wife is dead set against it. Not just that but if we do go to his home, we'll have to put our cat down because his wife doesn't want cat hair in the house and our cat isn't adoptable so we can't just give her up. She kicked their declawed cat out on the street after having her carpets cleaned at her old house because she didn't want cat hair on the carpet. His house is in the woods, way away from the city and jobs and there are none is his direct area. His wife works out of state and he works 45 minutes away from his home, leaving us with no way to get around or get calls for jobs. They have no home phone and in their area u can't get cell coverage, they use their cell phones when they're not home, since they're never home. His wife is CHEAP and very "high and mighty" attitutde. However, because our van needed our last $600 in repairs this week... we probly have no choice but to move in with them.

Maybe a job will come open first. It does not sound very welcoming.

Thanks for your story! It feels good to know I'm not the only one who thinks AL is a no win state. It's beautiful but there's just no way to survive barely. All my work experience is in administrative assistant/clerical and my mom's is receptionist/hr assistant. There have been a few more lately but they all want associate degrees and masters... to answer a phone. I mean really, if I had my bachlors wtf would I be doing answering someone's phone for $8 an hour? Common sense people! Even for like executive admin asst, no more than $10/hr lately if you have a billion degrees. That same job used to be no less then $17/hr just a few years ago in this same city w/out all the degrees. I've sent out another round of resumes and will be following up on Tuesday and Monday morning we're going to the career center. We just want to save up enough to move out of the state.

Thanks again!

That is the truth of it!
That's the same thing we faced.

There were simply no good jobs that they
were willing to pay for.

We moved here, cause my spouse could get up to ten dollars
more per hour for doing the same job that he was slaving over there.
He worked seven days a week and often had to pull double shifts cause
they were literally paying minimum wage for a job that was well worth four
times that much.

It's just an economically depressed environment and they are misuing
the talent and getting it cheap.

I don't blame you for wanting to get out.

Just please don't wait until the money runs out.

We had our chance and we ran! I have never regreted it for one minute!
Honestly, I would have left if I didn't have a dime cause
there was nothing worth staying for and I couldn't have
afforded to raise a child there.

Ironically, I lived in that state for ten years, all the time
wanting a child and not being able to have one.

Less than four months after moving out of that state,
I conceived my child. Something tells me that was NO coincidence.

That place was bad luck for me and my body from the second I stepped on the soil!
I kid you not.

I agree, it can be a bad luck place! I've been the same way since we got here, nothing but bad health and bad luck. One thing right after the next to no end. Really ugly have happened to us here and I'm looking forward to leaving all of those things behind and the memories of them.

I don't know why people are so cheap here? AL is one of the poorest states but it holds a high number of millionaires. Craziness!

We called the community action and they said they don't help you unless you're making 3-4 times the ammount of your rent. Umm... then there wouldn't be a problem now would there?