Relocation

[EngineerDave]

Just curious how many times you have relocated? I.E. moving cities?

I've been in engineering and technical jobs since 1996 (1993 if you include co-op)

This will be my 3rd post college relocation (and 5th city if you count co-op jobs)

Moving is tough but for the job one has to do it, especially in this economy.

 

[ScottyUK]

I suspect it's probably also skewed by where you live: take two people in their late 30's, one who grew up in Kent and one who grew up in the in the Durham coalfield. One saw the the strike on the national news with the lawless miners attacking the righteous forces of law and order, and the other watched from the bedroom window while Maggie's stormtroopers beat their father in the street below.

The truth is no doubt somewhere in the middle; who decides what is the truth anyway?


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If we learn from our mistakes I'm getting a great education!

 

[Latexman]

Been working 30 years since college. Two companies (first one bought out), seven relocations, three countries, six cities.

Good luck,
Latexman

 

[BAMFengr]

Graduated college May of 2006, started first job in July of that year. Fast forward to February of '09, got laid off for the third time in less than a year, so that makes 4 jobs in (almost) 3 years. Changed cities after the first job.

If it weren't for the gorgeous weather and women, I would have never moved out here if I knew then what I knew now.

 

[kelowna]

Since 1994:
3 companies
6 countries
11 moves

My record so far is to move continents 3 times in the span of 12 months

 

[SomptingGuy]

When I was single, moving was easy. I moved from London to Brighton (employer change). Then from Brighton to Chicago (same employer). Then from Chicago to Sompting (hence handle, briefly via Brighton again though).

Now it's more tough. My "wife" and child have put roots down in Sompting, but I have thoughts and offers further afield.

(BTW Scotty, if you're implying/thinking I'm a Kent boy, nope. Cornwall/Plymouth. Unions in the 70's meant "The Dockyard")

- Steve

 

[EngineerDave]

How did you like Chicago Sompting? That's where I'm moving, to a western suburb though because I'll go between two locations (one north of Chicago and one west).

Any recommendations on nice areas to live. I think my halfway point is Elgin.

 

[SomptingGuy]

Others here have more experience and better qualified testimonies. I loved it as a an ex-pat Brit. Very central for US travel (trains & planes). A beach (even if fake). Some really cool downtown areas. A river (flowing backwards). Plus the blues.

Can't comment on Elgin or surrounds though. I was closer to Lisle/Naperville/Aurrora.


- Steve

 

[SomptingGuy]

... where are your two locations?

- Steve

 

[EngineerDave]

Sompting guy, I will PM you with this.

 

[EngineerDave]

Actually not sure if we can send private messages on here LOL.

Just a little paranoid about posting too much information as I've posted alot of info critical of my last position and things that happened there.

 

[ScottyUK]

Steve,

"BTW Scotty, if you're implying/thinking I'm a Kent boy, nope."

'Twas an example only. I'm not a Durham lad either. No offense intended - just as well I didn't choose Essex!


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If we learn from our mistakes I'm getting a great education!

 

[SomptingGuy]

I'm not in my late 30's either ;-)

- Steve

 

[SomptingGuy]

EngineerDave,

You are correct, the site does not have a PM facility. Anyway, I dug out my map and it's all coming back to me. I used to spend many a weekend in towns on the Fox river that runs N/S through the far west 'burbs. Most of them are really nice places. A river really makes a town.

- Steve

 

[MechEng13]

5 jobs, 4 locations so far...currently looking for job 6.

Central Illinios, Rhode Island, East Central Indiana, and Mid North Indiana so far.



MechEng13

http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanetzkorn

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

EngineerDave,

I've lived around Chicagoland for the last 16 years (although I'm up in Wisconsin now).

Elgin would be a good choice for accessability. It's a nice area, or at least it was last time I spent any time there a few years ago. It's growing very fast and there have been traffic congestion/urban sprawl issues, but that's true of virtually all Chicago suburbs.

 

[FeX32]

Moose hunting with a machine gun. Props!


Fe

 

[looslib]

1978-1981 Corning, NY 1 job
1981-1985 Columbia, MD 1 job
1985-1994 Mesa, AZ 2 jobs
1994-2005 Chambersburg, PA 1 job
2005-present Waco, TX 2 jobs

That is since graduating when we lived in Provo, UT.
5 locations and 7 jobs in 31 years.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[metengr]

North to West commutes and back again in Chicagoland? You have got to be kidding. The traffic patterns are miserable heading west from the North/South 294 tollway and 355 N and S is also miserable North of I 55.

If you have to commute North and Elgin is your halfway point I would not live in any western suburb. Where is your North destination?

 

[EngineerDave]

Metengr

Gurnee is the northern suburb

But the way it will be split up is 2 days in Gurnee and 3 days in the far flung western location.

Now mathematically it could make sense to be in between or closer to the one where I'll spend 3 days.

However i might prefer to live closer to Gurnee or somewhere on the lake (even as far south as Evanston)

Then on a couple days make the mega commute out west (with a likely one night stay at hotel per week).

Just my thoughts, not sure yet.

It's all brand new to me.

 

[metengr]

You have several good choices - Gurnee, Antioch, Round Lake, etc. I would not live in or around Elgin.