Urgent - Help Badly Needed
So. We have come to the realization that we just can not live in California anymore. It's too expensive. Too much of a struggle. Brynn, Jori, and I have reached our wits end. We are so burnt out that we're just going through the motions. Mentally and physically exhausted.
We found that moving to the Las Vegas area would give us a lot of opportunities. Brynn is an IT professional, with numerous IT certifications, and IT is a huge thing there.
She's looking for any job she can get there as we speak.
Here's where you all come in - We need to be able to move. Get movers, get an apartment lined up there, get a deposit paid.
We've found a 3 bedroom that our combined incomes could handle with absolute ease. A fraction of the cost of living here.
California is just not going to work.
It should not be a rare luxury to be able to have one meal a day. I am regularly going days without food because I can't afford to eat. I have a little extra money and spend it on something for myself, another emergency strikes soon after leaving me struggling and floundering again.
I have been having chest pain for months now. I have lost everything that makes me who I am, and that scares me and upsets me. My creativity is gone. My hope is gone. I feel like I've died, and my body hasn't caught on to that fact yet. I am a husk, going through the motions of survival.
We can't live here anymore. We can't survive here. This place is going to kill us.
So what I am asking is this - Buy characters if you can. Donate, if you can.
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Spread the news. Get this out there. This is a cry for help. And at this point… I feel like this is a matter of life or death. I literally think this constant stress is going to kill us.
ANYTHING helps. ANYTHING. ANYTHING towards the goal.
What we are looking at is a 3 bedroom apartment with 2 bathrooms. We found one in a decent area for 1500 a month. Most ask for 2 months up front as a deposit.
Brynn and I need a bedroom, Jori needs a bedroom, and, HOPEFULLY, an office for me. Since I really, really want to try to get back into resin art and crafting. I started to get into it, but haven't had the space to work for over a year. And two bathrooms is needed due to me having severe IBD - with three people are using the same bathroom, there's a huge chance that it will not be available when I need it and when I need the bathroom I need it RIGHT THIS INSTANT… simply because of a chronic disease I've suffered with for most of my life.
I don't know what it will cost, I don't know what goal I should ask for. My dad might be able to help move our stuff. I might see if any of my family can help. In any way.
For those of you who might ask - we chose Las Vegas because they have good queer rights, somewhere we can drive if we get a moving truck, no income tax, legal weed (It's one of the few things that work for my migraines when all else fails), and a lower cost of living. Also, a LOT of opportunities for Brynn's line of work. IT is highly sought after there. And there are numerous jobs that pay very well. And Jori has a job that can go anywhere.
If there's two good steady incomes on top of whatever I bring in with art…. Vegas is livable. We can actually start to pull ahead and start saving instead of struggling and floundering with our mental and physical health failing. We might be able to even do something fun on occasion other than work and sleep and work and sleep and work and sleep.
ANYWAY. My family desperately needs to relocate somewhere that won't kill us. If ANY of you can help, please do.
