For those watching for an update I am bound eastward, just not all the way to the east coast.
I have worked OT for the entire time I have worked here, with the objective of affording a move either into my own apartment here, or moving back home. Suffice it to say that making money to save it, and being applicable for low income housing are 2 separate things, an unpleasant Catch-22.
I frantically began a search for a place here when the wagon train eastbound denied me passage.
Not going any further with that. Words were said, and life here has not been good. I was pointed towards the Loveland Housing Authority. Again, I made $800-1000 too much, and the wait was 6 months to 2 years, not something that would help me in a hurry. I drove the rounds of apartments that
advertised tax credit or low income assistance. Everyone of them stated that I did not qualify, because I had worked OT.
So it seemed that Colorado had made my decision for me. I have two wonderful nieces who I love very much. When Michelle first offered her sofa in Virginia her older sister Paula also offered a place for me to get on my feet again. Virginia is far too expensive a place to afford rent, and find work, while indefinitely occupying her couch. Paula lives in Toledo, Ohio. The cost of living is lower, there is work to be had, and I am welcome, which is a good feeling after the past months here.
I will miss my friends that I have made in Colorado. They have been good shoulders to cry on, great minds that think alike, and much laughter was shared. They understand that there really ended up being no choice for me, but to go.
A fresh start, or once again into the great unknown..seems to be a pattern, but I hope that this time breaks the chain. I have lived in Ohio before as a teenager and liked it. Moving from Ohio to So.California was a rude awakening..like, gee, where are all the trees? Pavement and no groves of trees to be seen.
Well wish me luck, it's going to be a very busy next 2 weeks.
If you see a woman driving a U-Haul and towing a car, with an unhappy cat in the front seat, that just might be me.
Kel~*
I have worked OT for the entire time I have worked here, with the objective of affording a move either into my own apartment here, or moving back home. Suffice it to say that making money to save it, and being applicable for low income housing are 2 separate things, an unpleasant Catch-22.
I frantically began a search for a place here when the wagon train eastbound denied me passage.
Not going any further with that. Words were said, and life here has not been good. I was pointed towards the Loveland Housing Authority. Again, I made $800-1000 too much, and the wait was 6 months to 2 years, not something that would help me in a hurry. I drove the rounds of apartments that
advertised tax credit or low income assistance. Everyone of them stated that I did not qualify, because I had worked OT.
So it seemed that Colorado had made my decision for me. I have two wonderful nieces who I love very much. When Michelle first offered her sofa in Virginia her older sister Paula also offered a place for me to get on my feet again. Virginia is far too expensive a place to afford rent, and find work, while indefinitely occupying her couch. Paula lives in Toledo, Ohio. The cost of living is lower, there is work to be had, and I am welcome, which is a good feeling after the past months here.
I will miss my friends that I have made in Colorado. They have been good shoulders to cry on, great minds that think alike, and much laughter was shared. They understand that there really ended up being no choice for me, but to go.
A fresh start, or once again into the great unknown..seems to be a pattern, but I hope that this time breaks the chain. I have lived in Ohio before as a teenager and liked it. Moving from Ohio to So.California was a rude awakening..like, gee, where are all the trees? Pavement and no groves of trees to be seen.
Well wish me luck, it's going to be a very busy next 2 weeks.
If you see a woman driving a U-Haul and towing a car, with an unhappy cat in the front seat, that just might be me.
Kel~*
