>>Once husband is settled in with his new job, sell his old home and moves family to new state<<
Lord, you people don’t get it.
NO ONE will buy our homes.
I sold my birth home, my hubby’s first home and we bought this one.
We lose two generations of homes.
Think it’s easy? Yeah, drop everything you’ve worked for and go, right? It isn’t so easy when it becomes reality.
And I’m 48. This is a nightmare.
Is it possible to hold on to your home (wife and family stay put) and husband go to states where jobs are available. How about the kids getting side jobs and throwing the paycheck onto the kitchen table to help out? Husband will have to rent a dump, but send most of the paycheck home to pay for the bills? It seems like MI does not have a diverse economy and heavily reliant on car industry, thus if it goes bust, everyone is broke and trapped. There are 47 other states within continental US that one can look for jobs. Some have a high demand for smoke stack type skills such as machinists, etc. Time will get tough before it gets better, and families that organize and are flexible will be the ones that will survive. My proposal is doable, because many families in Hong Kong (where no one can owns a house, but must pay exorbitant rents, plus pay for education) survive this way. All family members work (kids take on any part time paying jobs) and when all the paychecks are added together, the family will meet their basic needs.