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VIEWER SUBMITTED QUESTION - From the Vacant Ready Blog

“I have moved to a new city for a job with my hotel company. 3 months has passed and I’m not liking the scene. Although work is good, I want to relocate back to my previous city. Should I sacrifice my 10 year relationship with my hotel company to find a job back in the city I just left?

Yes there are other factors, such as house and mortgage, relocation expenses & settlement allowances to pay back. I’m very loyal to my hotel brand and would like to stay, but If I have to leave the company to be where I’m happy in my life, I am willing to consider it. However, I would not want to sacrifice any work opportunities in the future.

What advice can you give?”

I would think that if you were to move back it would have to be for a better opportunity like if you were offered a promotion or got a higher position towards your career goal. 

I would suggest applying for better opportunites and see if you get an offer or hired first before making that decision.

That would be worth the move but to just quit and move back to find another job is definately not thinking. Especially leaving after 10 years with the company.

IMHO, 3 months is not really long enough to tell if you really like the area or not. I too would have a hard time relocating on my own to a city where no family or friends lived. I did however once rent a room to a woman whose career choice was contract technical writer. She had a ‘home base” but spent 6-9 months of every year somewhere else, for 3 or 6 month contracts. Every new city she went to, she immediately seized upon tourist literature, local ads, message boards etc and got right away involved in anything that would fit the time frame she planned to be there-cycling clubs, theatre productions, volunteering, classes, seminars, day trips to local heritage areas, day trips to national parks to take in walking tours, kayaking tours, camping etc. It was amazing, she found stuff to do in my city inside of a month that I knew nothing about after living here a total of 36 years out of 37. Just one of these extreme “carpe diem” people. not everyone can be like her though, she had years of experience of living in new places all the time while maintaining her career status. I think i would give it a little more time myself, even though I know that i would be horribly homesick and lonely unless I had moved to the city with someone, and since I am single, relocating isn’t much of an option for me unless the employer provided accommodations like a foreign English teaching school or remote resort property.