Relocate for job??
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I've just moved country the second time. The first time, I moved from the UK to go to Atlanta (of all places) for a job.
I was leaving a place I had lived in for nearly ten years, had more friends and ex girlfriends in one place than I could shake a stick at - and within two weeks of getting the job - I found myself somewhere completely alien.
It was tough - made more so by not knowing a soul in Atlanta, and not being able to drive either. It was quite a feeling of restlessness and misplacement. And I missed England on a daily basis as I almost religiously compare the two places.
Four years later I found myself living in San Francisco. From first moving to ATL, three jobs, girls and two cars later I returned back the place I had lived in the UK for those ten years.
It is scary, you learn more about yourself taking yourself away from a comfortable and secure environment. You are forced to explore, learn, feel different and make choices. You meet new people, that know only that you moved from Manchester. you break old habbits and get to create entirely new ones.
As a designer or a creative person it is a fantastic experience, as you are forced to see and experience new things that you sort of become immune to if you stay in a 'home town' sort of comfortable environment.
You leanr to make things happen for yourself, become more aware of what you want and don't want - and although I don't like the truth in this, change is often good and far more rewarding in the end than it may immediately appear.
If I could - I'd do it again. Oh - wait - I just moved back to San Francisco three weeks ago... but I don't have a job this time. No one does out here it appears.
Bath is an excellent place - I have family there. Email me when you get there - let me know how it goes. I know what its like - and can empathise with the hesitation you feel.
Career-wise - anything you can do to experience more and do new things will enrich your abilities to create and enjoy working.
Keep us all informed of what you do - I'd like to know.
dn