Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Goodbye California. . .

Sean, I always thought your South Park avatar looked like David Spade. Did you make it on a generator to approximate yourself, or were you going for the David Spade look?

Wow Sean, It will be tough at first but Arizona Imo is a very nice state as long as you don't mind temps in excess of 120
As Dean mentioned many California folks are migrating there for many different reasons, some of our best freinds just moved there and love it. Good luck!

Maybe Dean can go ahead and give the concerned citizens of Phoenix a heads up.

Good luck with your future job endeavors and with your move to Phoenix Sean!

Best of luck Sean, sorry to hear about the layoffs at your company. I can relate, have lost a lot of good friends at my company this last few months.

It must be a mixed blessing, Sean. You are valued enough that they want to keep you on, but you're losing your peeps and your home. A tough pickle all the way around.

On the plus side, my "little" (he's almost 19 and id 6'5") brother is a freshman at Arizona State, so the likelihood of me being in your area in the next four years is high.

I'm glad to hear you still have a job, but it must have been a rough week!

I still remember sitting in the shade at the bottom of the Grand Canyon as temps. crept up to 110. I was very glad they had an airconditioned bar at the 'ranch' nearby.

I feel your pain. I am flying down (from Iowa) at Atlanta on Monday for a formal interview within my own company to see if I can get a promotion that would allow me to stay employed. If not, I am going to be out of a job for who know how long with the economy in its current state. I am fine with the move (as much as moving from family and friends sucks, plus the whole moving hassle), but my wife isn't big on the idea, and when we talk to the kids about it this weekend, I know that they are going to be impacted the most for the first 6 months or so while we adjust.

So definitely a mixed bag, but at this point I would take the move vs. being unemployed so I feel your pain.

Nick, I talked to my wife yesterday. She said you should just move down there for a month or whatever (apartment), to see if your going to like it, that way you don't have to uproot your family if you don't like things, you can always come back.

That all depends on *if* I can find a job around here. At some point we will have to "cut loose" and start the transition (again, *if* I even get offered the job *if* it gets approved), but knowing when to give up on the Des Moines area and when to focus on moving is a fine line. For me, if I do get the job, the move won't come soon enough, but for my family any day will seem too soon.

But, we have taken Sean's thread off topic. Imagine that!

At least topics are related. It's not really a hijack as much as a merger.