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[quote=Anonymous]OP, this is a pretty radical thing but here's my story. DH lost his job in December. We knew in October and he was on "working severance" till the first day of December.  Now, the writing had been on the wall (layoffs, cutbacks, etc) so he had actually been in the job market almost a year when it happened. Despite networking, headhunters, and such he had some interviews but in terms of a real prospect - nada... One day a light bulb went off in my head...

I work in a fairly high demand field. I was ready for the next step up so I thought "What if I got a job in a smaller area, cheaper cost of living, where we could live decently on a single income if we had to" I also recalled recruiting an executive to my current work and how we really worked hard to find this candidate's husband a job so she would be enticed to accept our job offer.

DH and I talked it over, selected a handful of prospective states and I started to look. I got a solid offer within 3 months. No promise of a job for DH but a solid promise that they would connect him to every soul in town that could possibly help him land a position. My salary was high enough that we could rent our DC house and swing the rent on a house in the new state. Private school for both kids was less than half of what we were paying for one kid at a DC independent.

My company was true to their word, they networked constantly on my DH behalf, and within 6 weeks of moving he not only had a new job but a promotion. So, long story short, we moved to a cheaper COL area and now have an actually higher salary than we had in DC.

The other day DH looked at me and said "I think we dodged a bullet" and I agreed. I don't know if you're in a position to move out and move up but I can tell you its at least worth considering. The really hard part was leaving our family. We're lifelong DC'ers and now we live in the Midwest.

All along, I kept saying to myself "the kids will adjust to a new home, town and school a lot better than they will adjust to food stamps and being homeless"

Good luck, I really feel for you and hope you are OK.[/quote]

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