When I moved back to Fredericton, I was planning on making the Maritimes my home base of operations again. Trying to make for a permanent location instead of all the moving I've done in the past few years. The ideal was that I'd get a teaching job and be able to start...I don't know...some semblance of a consistent life that wasn't customer service.
But honestly, since moving back, I've realized not only how little I enjoy living here but that there's really nothing here for me. Unemployment in the province is over 10% and I've found a hard time just getting a job in general. It doesn't help that I honestly don't know how to look for a job anymore. Time was, I could go to different places, speak with the manager, and drop off a resume. But that's harder to to do these days with more stores - especially large companies - doing all their hiring online. On a smaller note, I don't enjoy biking in this city. I live at the top of the city's hill and a lot of what I enjoy (yoga, comics, coffee shop) are all downtown. Which is fine going down, but's a goddamn bitch to get back up. And the transit system in this town is atrocious, not even running on Sundays.
The more I've thought about it over the last year, the more I realize I miss Toronto. It has more things for me to do there, more ways for me to get around town even late at night, a much more enjoyable biking experience, and just...I don't know. More of everything? I don't have much family there, but I still have a few friends there. Probably just about as many as I have here, honestly, which isn't many since my social life is pretty terrible.
There are things that are stopping me, though:
1) No real reason to go. Aside from overall enjoying the city landscape more, there's nothing really there for me.
2) No job lined up. And at best, it would be some shit customer service job since I don't have any valuable skills worth anything else.
3) Cost just getting there, since I'll have little money after I'm done my current seasonal job after Christmas.
4) Cost of living there is higher and I don't know anyone who I could move in with. I wouldn't want to do strangers again because that led to a lot dramatic bullshit and having to move several times.
So yeah, I don't know. Feel free to throw some advice. This was more of a rant for rant's sake, I think. I just thought, if I'm going to feel like a loser with nothing in his life, I could at least feel like a loser with nothing in his life in a city that I enjoy living in.
But honestly, since moving back, I've realized not only how little I enjoy living here but that there's really nothing here for me. Unemployment in the province is over 10% and I've found a hard time just getting a job in general. It doesn't help that I honestly don't know how to look for a job anymore. Time was, I could go to different places, speak with the manager, and drop off a resume. But that's harder to to do these days with more stores - especially large companies - doing all their hiring online. On a smaller note, I don't enjoy biking in this city. I live at the top of the city's hill and a lot of what I enjoy (yoga, comics, coffee shop) are all downtown. Which is fine going down, but's a goddamn bitch to get back up. And the transit system in this town is atrocious, not even running on Sundays.
The more I've thought about it over the last year, the more I realize I miss Toronto. It has more things for me to do there, more ways for me to get around town even late at night, a much more enjoyable biking experience, and just...I don't know. More of everything? I don't have much family there, but I still have a few friends there. Probably just about as many as I have here, honestly, which isn't many since my social life is pretty terrible.
There are things that are stopping me, though:
1) No real reason to go. Aside from overall enjoying the city landscape more, there's nothing really there for me.
2) No job lined up. And at best, it would be some shit customer service job since I don't have any valuable skills worth anything else.
3) Cost just getting there, since I'll have little money after I'm done my current seasonal job after Christmas.
4) Cost of living there is higher and I don't know anyone who I could move in with. I wouldn't want to do strangers again because that led to a lot dramatic bullshit and having to move several times.
So yeah, I don't know. Feel free to throw some advice. This was more of a rant for rant's sake, I think. I just thought, if I'm going to feel like a loser with nothing in his life, I could at least feel like a loser with nothing in his life in a city that I enjoy living in.