A car followed me home
I dont know what you do for a living, but I hope you have a good trade and have some work lined up
Best of luck!!!!!!!!!!
The move is due to a transfer that I put in for. Actually a promotion too. I am a wildland firefighter for the US Forest Service. Federal job so it's pretty decent. If I wasn't 15 years away from retirement I would go to work for Fed Ex. My buddy says they can't hire the CDL Class A driver's they need and it pays 100k starting. I have a Class B because I drive the fire engine. Would be pretty easy to get an A. My Dad was an auto transporter hauling cars from GM plants to dealers and hauled freight for a few years before retirement. I know the trade and he was always paid really well.
I am not native to California. I got here because I went to school in Coronado to try to be a SEAL, but that didn't work out, and I did meet my wife and got married (3 dates before proposal). Been married 18 years. Got stationed in Gulf Coast Mississippi for 7 years and then back to San Diego. I got out of the service in San Diego and started doing the wildfire thing since 2012.
Just as a personal opinion, San Diego County and Ventura County, California has the best weather in the US. It's just untenable to live here. Taxes, gas, living costs, the education system, gun laws, .... The weather isn't making living under these conditions worth it anymore.
For my job, there just isn't anything more exciting than a SoCal wildfire. I love it. It'll be hard NOT going into work everyday in the summer and getting prepared for WWIII in the foothills and mountains of Southern California. The grass fires in Texas just won't be the same. However, I can build my ghost guns and finally get into the suppressor game. My kids can go to schools that aren't trying to brainwash them with ideology, and I'll be just 2.5 hours away from home. I grew up around horses and even done some ferrier training so it'll be great to afford a property where I can keep a horse.
