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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a fed social scientist facing RIF/reorg as well, and I wouldn't make this move. If not disrupting my family was a priority, I'd look for work outside my field and take a pay cut to stay in the area. (That is my plan, currently.)[/quote]

What kind of work are you considering, working retail making $20/hr?[/quote]

I've worked retail before and generally the hours are too all over the map for parents of young kids. I'd definitely consider a weekend/evening serving gig. Also considering substitute teaching, bus driving, and weekend/evening tour guiding.

The key would be having very low paid work be part time while searching for another office job or consulting. But I've accepted that where I live I could probably only make 50-75% of my fed salary even then.

This is the kind of stuff you have to think about if you're prioritizing not moving the kids or keeping your spouse's local job. [/quote]

75%? So I make $135k working retail? I’m so out of touch, that seems very doable. [/quote]

Are you being intentionally obtuse? I said "even then," as in once I eventually find another professional job. The state and local governments pay 50-75%, for example.

But I clearly make a lot less than you, as does my spouse, so it seems like we have...more options than you, somehow? Not sure how that works, but we know what a bare bones budget is and how to live on it[/quote]

Our jobs are downtown, so we prioritized a shorter commute so that's probably why you have more options.  If I could transfer to a role in Loudoun or something and live in PW or Loudoun we could get by on a lot less, but of course that also means moving a high schooler who has learning disabilities and seems to doing well where she is.[/quote]

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