To move or not to move? HELP
So I am struggling with a HUGE decision. I have a baby girl due March 6, and our lease for our house in Nevada is up at the end of April. My husband and I both lost our jobs last March and took an opportunity to help run a Lodge/resort in Idaho, which is where we have been working and living since last August (I would just come home to NV for Dr. Appointments).
The owners of the lodge in Idaho have offered for us to move up there permanently (when our lease is up in April) and live in an apartment on the property rent free for as long as we want.
THE THING IS: The apartment is extremely tiny. We currently live in a 2200 sq/ft house, so we would have to put about 80% of our belongings in storage, if not more because we'll have all the new baby stuff as well. So we would 100% be sacrificing comfort and space in order to not pay rent.
Also, this lodge/resort is located literally in the middle of nowhere. The closest civilization (meaning Walmart) is an hour away on a good day. And it snows HEAVILY 7/8 months out of the year (location is 7000 ft 🏔️). This means that my husband and I will live and breath our work environment.
Plus, we would have to only work opposite shifts because someone has to be home with the baby, so we would only ever see each other in passing unless we both happened to get a day off, which is unlikely because he runs the bar/restaurant and they are extremely short staffed. I'm talking, he worked 80 hours last week alone. He made money, but it's just too much to put on one person and I don't see it getting much better once we live there permanently and they have him on call. I mean literally we would be living in the parking lot (the apartment is one of two that are located above the public laundry facility on the property). Oh and we would have to use the public laundry.
But also keeping in mind, there are no jobs in our much loved town in Nevada. We have space here, support and we adore our area but that doesn't mean much if we don't have jobs to sustain living here.
I am so torn. Do we give up comfortable living in order to have secure jobs and live rent free for a year (or two)...also at the cost of giving up our freedom? Or do we try to make it work in Nevada where we are happy, have space (which is super important to me with a newborn on the way) and friends who support us and civilization ?
If you've made it this far thank you. Part of that was a rant and I feel better for getting it out. It's a lot to consider when your 8 months pregnant 😭 what do yall think/ what would you do??
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