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Moving to California Bay Area. Decision literally happened in about three hours.
If only I had the money I’d live and die in the PNW
Do it! You can make $75k even just as a waiter here. I moved here from Colorado and will never leave.
I’m originally from the Orange County area and don’t wanna live in California again. My family is still all out there so I can visit when I need to. I left because I couldn’t find even a waiting job and moved to the Pittsburgh area and am pretty happy. I’d kill to live in Seattle or Portland but I have a whole life out here now.
I’m super happy you found happiness tho :)
Something tells me that comment you answered to was a bit tongue in cheek
Hmm, I’m not sure because CA is one of the only states where tipping culture is still very much a thing but servers aren’t allowed to be paid nothing (well not “nothing” it’s usually like $3 an hour but their paychecks after taxes are always $0.00) and have to at least be paid minimum wage.
The issue though is that getting one of those jobs..even a job at McDonald’s (at least when I was growing up and living there) is incredibly hard. Sure they’ll take your application…and add it to the bottom of the 5 inch stack of them. I no joke once spent 12 hours straight in this typical California shopping area and applying literally everywhere. I didn’t care what it paid or the kind of business. I did this quite a few times but never a full 12 hours.
The only “consistent” work I found was telemarketing but the turnover is like insane and it’s soul crushing. But if he got lucky then more power to em
Take my place please, I want to back to Cali lol