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Should I move to Tucson, AZ to teach at a charter high school? (The specific details of why this city / this job are for reasons that aren't really relevant)

Some relevant information: I'm 23 years old, graduated college last year with a decent degree in a relatively non-useful major. I have typical 20-something ambivalence about future plans - basically, I have no idea what I want to do with my life. Am currently working in an office job which is fine (albeit somewhat dull) but not a long-term thing at all. I'm unlikely to stay in the place I live now over the long term (for financial reasons) - if I don't do this, I'll move to some other city and try and find some other office job, or something, I really don't know. I've been to Tucson and it seems like a nice place - I wouldn't want to live there forever but I could stand it for a couple years. I don't have any friends there. I've never really taught, but it seems like the kind of thing that I could be at least marginally competent at. I would probably not move for several months (next school year basically)

Any thoughts? ... this is a terrible idea, isn't it?

It's an excellent idea. Do it! This is the time in your life to take chances - and it sounds like the perfect chance to take. Your adventure is waiting!

If nothing is keeping you where you live, move!

I really like Tucson and I don't think it's a terrible idea to move there! There's lots of stuff to do, especially if you like hiking and biking and things. It's really hot though, and the public transport system is kind of dumb.

Well, actually everything related to transport is kind of dumb in Tucson. They're redoing the freeway for the second time this decade, which annoys me to no end.

Anon from below. They're doing 10 again? That's...incredibly stupid. And a major waste of millions of dollars.

Yep. Apparently a lot of overpasses are getting replaced. That sound you hear is my teeth grinding.

I'm really glad I'm not living there anymore. Except I'm living in Dallas now so it's actually worse. Texas does this weird thing where they stack overpasses on top of each other. It makes driving with GPS really fun because the GPS can't tell which freeway you're on. If they start replacing overpasses, I'm moving away.

The whole time I was in Tucson, I couldn't figure out why they did all that work east of Tucson. Mescal Road I think it was? It was about halfway between Tucson and Benson and there was absolutely nothing there. The contractors screwed something up with redirecting traffic about two years ago and a worker was hit and killed by a car. But when they finished they had a very decorative overpass that led to a dead end to the north and a gravel pit to the south.

I actually like that Dallas (or really, Texas in general) doesn't do cloverleaves, because I hate cloverleaves. Having to merge at low speeds hurts me in my very soul. /dramatic sobbing They do have their uses though.

Oh Lord, that construction is still going on I think. I have no idea what it's all about, but it's such a pain to go through that area! At least it looks like it's mostly done.

I'm a fan of rapid acceleration and drive a V8 so I never minded the cloverleaves :) Sure it got a little expensive when gas prices were really high, but not expensive enough to change my ways.

I'm going back again in about a month and now I'm second guessing renting a car. I'm mostly going to be just in the immediate are of my hotel and I can always give my friends gas money to drag me around if we go out or anything.

I drive a big rig, so I hate having to slow down so much! My momentum, wah! D: Not to mention people seem especially terrible at merging on them. People who can't merge are one of my biggest pet peeves.

I would advocate walking, because I love me some walking, but Tucson isn't really made for pedestrians. My neighborhood doesn't even have sidewalks. u__u Silly Tucson. Having friends drive you is probably the way to go.

It makes driving with GPS really fun because the GPS can't tell which freeway you're on

Ahahaha, I live in Dallas too and the crazy overpasses makes driving with my sister a real experience (she gets extremely frustrated when she gets lost....she gets lost a lot)

This is a really good idea for a lot of reasons. How likely are you to find another teaching job with your qualifications and experience? Not very likely unless things have changed A LOT in the last few years since I was in your position. I wound up going into the Air Force to pay off my student loans and was stationed in Tucson. It's kind of a weird place, especially if you're from the east, but it's a good place. The housing market is good, shopping is better than most places in the southwest, Phoenix is a short drive away, there is a lot to do in and around Tucson, and the NaNoWriMo group is AWESOME (if NaNo is something you're interested in). I ETSed a year ago and moved away but I actually miss the place a lot and have gone back twice to visit.

Uh. Do you have a job offer? Because if not, I would hold out on the moving, which is very time consuming and expensive.

For example, I moved to Seoul, South Korea for a year and taught English, but I went because I had been extended an offer.

Well, I was going to say "no", randomly selecting a city from all the cities in the world and moving there probably wouldn't turn out well. But moving to a specific city for a specific job -- sure, do that.

I moved to another city for a job six years ago and don't regret it at all. I fully expect to move again next time I need a new job (jobs in my field are not thick on the ground, I have to go where the work is.)

If you have a job offer already... I think I would ask, do you think you'd regret not doing it? I generally operate under the principle that I would rather take chances and have things not turn out well than stay safe and later regret not having taken those chances. Some of them have turned out not so great, but others have turned out very well.

We took a HUGE chance moving back to the area I grew up about 4yrs ago. My partner didn't have a job offer or anything, and the move was financed by my ex-boyfriend, who got a decent sum of money as settlement for a work injury. My partner's place of work at the time, back east, was truly horrific, and they had been incredibly depressed for about a year. Their job had promised them they would be hired after 3mo, then told them they said no such thing, and said maybe in another... meanwhile, my partner was sending out their resume and getting no bites.

And I was pretty depressed and missing my home in the Seattle area. My ex also had sentimental reasons too; his mom had family in the same area, and they had intended to move when he graduated high school, but the family member that was going to help them out had things change. My parents also had their second home that they had been unable to rent for about 2yrs.

So, we took a giant chance and moved. We knew we would have some amount of help from my folks, but it was still a huge risk. My partner and ex both had never lived outside of the Boston area, and there was no guarantee that my partner would be able to find work. As it turns out, my partner found an amazing job after about a month of looking that has been so very good to them and us. My partner spent a year only able to work half hours because of illness, and they not only didn't fire them, but they gave them a raise because of exemplary performance; my partner works full-time now as a remote employee. With my partner's health issues, without the amazing support of their job, they would be having to pursue disability.

It has been very good for all of us; things went sour with my ex, but he has been able to get support for his disability here that he wouldn't have back east. I'm personally much happier living somewhere that people have not been jerks to me about my own disability, or being obviously with my girlfriend, or my gothy dress and brightly colored hair.

ANYWAY. Long comment is long and CSB but I just wanted to give the anecdote that sometimes risky chances can pay off and actually be pretty amazing :)

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