I could really use some advice. I'm really struggling. I moved up North a year and a half ago and I detest where I live. It is the worst mistake I ever made. I live in a small town. Everyone I have met has grown up here, have family here, all their friends are from school. I feel like a foreigner and noone seems interested in wanting to be my friend. I haven't made a single friend since I moved. I'm not from a close family and my family are all scattered across the country. My sister lives close by (she was the reason I moved here), but we're not that close and we really are very different. I don't have a single shred of support from anyone. I'm a single mum to a lovely 3 year old DD and she is the only reason why I keep going. One of the major reasons moving here was such a massive mistake is that I can't find a job. I had a great job before I moved up here and worked very hard to gain a professional qualification in my field. I am unemployed, on benefits and at least £1,000 in debt. I am desparate to move away from here, move further down South where there are more job opportunities. I would also dearly love to be near the coast. I HATE my life. I have lost all hope of things ever getting better. I can't pay off my debt as I don't have a job, I can't move because I can't afford it; I can't travel to attend any interviews, if I were to get any that were further South, as i can't afford petrol and have no childcare. I don't even know where I'd like to move to, as I don't have any close friends or close family anywhere within the UK. I know that I love Devon and Norfolk and in fact I do have an old school friend in Devon and a cousin, but i couldn't move there as it's too far from my ex (my DD's father) and we have to split the travel when my DD stays with him every other weekend. So, as you can see, I am totally trapped. I can't see anyway out of this awful situation. Living here and hating it so much is so wearing and it is destroying me. Not having a job and getting constant rejections is soul destroying. I have thought about ending it all, but I can't because I couldn't do that to my daughter as I love her so much. The only option that I have is to stay here. I am trying to so hard to stay afloat, to pretend to be happy and upbeat for my daughter, to keep on top of the housework etc but I feel like I'm in a living hell and I don't know how much longer I can keep going like this. I've never been very popular and find it hard to make friends, but in the past I have managed to make a few nice friends wherever I have lived, but I haven't since I moved up here. I actually wish I could end it all, as at least I could escape this misery, but I know I could never do that to my daughter. I am also so angry at myself for moving it here, I'd gone through a bitter break up with my ex, was struggling as a single mum and my sister kept on at me to move closer to her with promises that her and her husband would support my daughter and I, but the reality has been totally the opposite. I rarely see her and have never felt more isolated and alone in my entire life. I would be grateful for any words of help. Thank you.