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Originally Posted by trd_kid
So I'm a CompSci student about to graduate in august with a kinda poor gpa , but decent list of skills and some job experience at a local research institute doing system administration tasks. I had a talk with one of my co-workers who had a similar situation to mine where they're parents moved and put them in a bind to either find follow along, or find a new place to call home. My problem is trying to decide if I should leave Texas or explore the world seeing how I'm young , single ,no kids, have a degree in a good field and so on. If anyone could I guess help me decide where to possibly look for jobs, how to handle the stress of leaving your comfort zone(home, and friends), and stay positive it would be appreciated!
-Confused College Senior
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Be willing to move. Simple. Once you have your first serious career job, then you can decide on whether to stay in that place, or move sometime later.
Don't make any serious "settling down" decisions until you're securely settled on your own.
That said, see if there's good jobs where your parents moved to. You CAN save a ton of money by living with them while you're getting your career started. A co-worker of mine did that and had enough money saved up over the course of a few years to bought a nice home and drop well over $15k over that into home improvements, and NOT be in debt, all because he was living with his parents until then. Now he's got a house of his own.
So, there's benefits if you can do that, but you don't have to. I didn't. In my case, I'm the one who moved. Grew up in Virginia, went to college in Arizona, stayed in Arizona, but moved from my college town down to Phoenix. Stayed.
In my case, I'm still an apartment dweller and don't have enough saved to put a downpayment on a house. I will eventually, but not right now, and I've been out of college for 7 years.
Either way is fine, but there's pros and cons to each. The key, OP, is to not get locked into going one way or the other. Not until you are in a position employment-wise to be on your own without parental support.