How do you relocate to a new city without money or a job?

Answer 1

If you want to relocate to a new city or town, pre-planning is a must!

If possible, make at least 1 visit to the town and look around/drive around. Stop in a few small stores and ask for tips about which neighborhoods are best, low crime, easy to get to/from, rents within your price range, etc. Check a local phone book for the list of local extensions... the 3 numbers that come after an area code. For example, one city's area code may be "216" but they may have hundreds of "extensions" based on areas within the city. Ask which neighborhoods use which phone extensions. Pick up a local paper at a convenience store and look at the Job ads and Apartment Ads and specifically note whether the phone numbers are in the areas you just learned about from store owners. If possible stay overnight at a local motel so you can do more investigation the next day.

If you absolutely cannot do an overnight visit, you'll need to use other ways to check out the area. Google the word newspaper+city state (the city you are interested in). Read their newspaper for several months online. Pay attention to crime news and job or local unemployment news. Also browse the want ads online.

Google TV news+city state (the city you are interested in). Look through the archives of the TV news station. Play their video news clips. Visit the site every day for a few weeks or months to get an idea of the area and problems you might face.

Call ahead. If you think you'll need to sign up for State Welfare (money, food stamps, etc) call ahead and ask what they require. Some States make you wait 6 months before you are eligible--can you survive 6 months in a strange city with little money??

Use the want ads online to do job searches. Send out resumes from your current home ONLY to places where you might have a good chance of employment. If you can visit the city, set up Interviews all on one day (or two days). If Place A doesn't hire you, ask if they know a local business that could use your talents.

While doing your research from home, you've got to plan what you are taking, selling, leaving behind. Go through every possession. If you can sell an item, sell. SAvE the money from every sale, no matter what amount. You'll need the extra $2.00 from a small sale just as much as you'll need the $100.00 from selling a bigger item. As well, start saving every penny from your current work or whatever income you have. You'll need every penny to move and get reestablished in the new city.

If you belong to a church now, ask if there's a related church in the new city. Ask your pastor if he/she would write you a "Letter of Introduction" that you can show at a church there if you need help after moving. Call churches there and ask if you would come do work for them (cleaning, mowing grass) would they be open to helping you if you need it after moving.

Make sure before moving to get other references too. Don;t rely on your memory for your neighbor's phone number. Write it all down. Ask people "If I need a reference in my new town, can I use you as a reference?"

A word of caution, though. If you want to move ONLY to get away from "a problem", especially a financial problem, don't move for that reason only. Moving will only stretch your budget more. It's far better to clean up one mess before moving and creating new messes.

Try to have at least 3 months "rent money" in your pocket before leaving, plus security deposit. With travel, food, and rent monies, you'll need money in your pocket to do a safe, smooth move! Remember also, utilities require turn on fees. If you are a new customer, fees can be very high.

So, plan, plan, plan. The better your plan before you go, the better your move will go.

Answer 2

"The easiest way" might be different depending on what kind of person one is and what one wants out of life. And on one's intentions are, but here is my suggestion, based on my experience, which includes three straight years of constantly moving from place to place:

Find happiness in your surroundings.

If this is not possible, other suggestions MAY include:

• Buy a Mobile Home / Trailer / Caravan, and a vehicle powerful enough to tow it. That way, you don't need to know anyone in the area you want to move to, your outgoings will be low, if you don't mind doing various things to work temp or casual, you will meet a lot of people quickly, and if you find you after all don't like the new area or the people in it you just drive off to somewhere else!

• Alternatives might be, in summer, use a tent. Or if you are alone, just rent a room or lodge, or sleep in a YMCA hostel or something similar to that. If money is real tight, sleep in the back of the car! You can go into a posh hotel every few days for breakfast, and ask to use a bathroom - the staff will often let you use an empty room so you can change and clean yourself up. You can say how you're doing a self-build and there are no facilities on site, for example.

• If you like comfort above all and have a generous budget, just go to the area and stay in the best hotel. Go the round of Estate Agents, banks, etc and while doing so, looking for properties, secretly look out for job opportunities / businesses to acquire.

• If you have enough time, it would be sensible to holiday in the area for a few times, getting to know people there and feeling your way in, including looking for work if that is what you need. Remember, owning is cheaper than renting, and working for one's self is better than working for anyone else!

I'm trying to do that right now, move to North Carolina from the northeast, plain and simple it is not easy. employers actually state in there open positions 'only hiring city residents' etc. It's a catch-22, You need a job to move there, but you can't move till you have one. It sucks!

The same for me also. I am relocating to Charlotte area and I keep getting that you have to live here before we can hire you.

Hey Something you can do is to go to the local post office and get a p.o. box there and use that as your local address, get a prepaid cell like simple freedom or tracfone and use the p.o. box so that it will register you as local. They can't say anything then. Or even better Get a skype phone if you have a broadband connection and use the place your moving to for the local number it can give you, It's $60 a year all together that unlimited calling and a local number. It's just like a prepaid cell except you can live in North Dakota and have a Charlotte number and no one knows the difference and won't use any minutes. So your looking at a total of 60 for the phone and about 20-25 for 6 months for the po box so $85 at most will register you as a local in the town. Hope that helped.

If you have good credit and a good payment record on utilities, it is fairly easy to rent and get set up in a new town without a job. The only thing is that you still have to make the payments even though it might take awhile to land that job. Moving there with a plan that includes unexpected events, frugal expectations and savings will get you through. I did it and it all worked out, but you really have to pay attention to your outgoings.

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I've relocated by working a retail job like Home Depot, Lowe's, CVS, etc. Then ask for a transfer to where you want to go. There's no loss of income and you are also able to have the time off to make the move. Once you get to your destination you can always get another job if you're not happy at the new store. Doing a transfer also makes it easier to get an apartment.

I agree with some of those above. You need some savings to help you live safely for several months while you settle. A small apartment along a bus line, simple home cooked meals, wearing what you have and a survival job will help you while you find that job. Camping and other alternatives are cheaper, but they take a lot of energy, which might be better spent on job hunting, or working temp jobs. I have noticed that phone interviews are difficult to "win" and that it is better to be in the town where you are interviewing.