to think I will never be able to live in Cornwall again unless we live in a tent and clean toilets for a living?

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(Have name changed for this one as am currently bleating on a lot about this in real life.)

I used to live in Cornwall when I was in my twenties but I accidentally moved away, met DH, had children and am now stranded in the town I grew up in anD I hate it.

I dream of going back to Cornwall and bringing up the DSs there, and decided to focus on making it happen and we have been looking for a job there for DH who does IT support. There is nothing advertised, ever and we've been looking for nearly two years.

He could take a lesser job and pay he was on 15 years ago, which would then put us in a rubbish position to get a mortgage, or we could resign ourselves to never buying and rent something very cheap whilst we both do random minimum wage work to make ends meet.

I dunno, on the one hand I feel like if we want it enough we could make it happen, but then in reality I just don't see how. Shoudl I just accept this and go and live somewhere I like much less but where employment isn't nigh on impossible?

sunny - that's what I've been thinking, that we would spend much less than we do now escaping our lives. But DH thinks we are just reckless and crap with money and will never change.

I think what woudl screw us is the fact that we would need full time childcare for one child and our oldest woudl probably need dropping off and picking up from school and I imagine this wouldn't be much less than about £12k per year, which is a lot to lose. Also I can't find anywhere to rent for less than £600 ish per month.

Perhaps we need to wait until we don't need childcare anymore, or until we've both thought of some sort of amazing business we can run from home!

Have e-mailed you re a job

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