Moving to Colorado, Seeking Advice

[yellowstang]

I could easily do my job from home, but I hope it doesn't come down to that. My output would greatly decrease from all the distractions.

Yup, like the damn fridge!

[Craizie]

Yup, like the damn fridge!

What kid of fat joke is that? That's just mean, dude.

[Big A]

Part of my deal was I told them I would come back and work a couple of weeks 3-4 times per year, but they don't really hold me to that. It just works well for us to be able to go back to Texas and see friends and family and eat good food and not have to take vacation time to do it. We just drive it because we have our dog to take with us.

When I started working from home, I was the only one doing it, but now that it has worked out so well, they have started letting others who have their shit together do the same thing. I'm still the only one working out of state, though.

I really do get way more done this way. When I get back from working a couple of weeks in the office, I have to play catch-up and get back in my groove.

We're toying with the idea of getting an RV and traveling around to state parks, staying for a couple of weeks at each and working from there during the week.

Sounds like a great situation, it's not so cut and dried for me unfortunately. My bigger issue in reality, will be convincing myself that I'm okay to move. A big factor in what has made me successful is being local, where the competition is not, and I've got to figure out how important the in-person meetings have been over the years. I've got quite a few clients in SoCal that I see once a year at events though, and am able to maintain solid relationships via phone and Skype, so maybe it's less of a big deal than I think. Not something I want to be wrong about, but hey, at least I'll be close to family when they shitcan me, and we need a place to live.

[95DRGT]

I've been working from home for 16years- no distractions, more productive and way more flexibility. Snow or ice days and sick I'm still working it's sometimes hard to get away from it.

[Sgt Beavis]

I've been working from home for 16years- no distractions, more productive and way more flexibility. Snow or ice days and sick I'm still working it's sometimes hard to get away from it.

Same for me after almost 10 years of telecommuting. The bonus is that I got a stay at home wife out of the deal and she's basically my personal assistant throughout the day.

[Jon/xpm]

jluv - Only examples I could think of would be something like mineral wells or weatherford, something small and close enough to drive into a major city. If money was not an option, I would be in winter park right now. But that place is crazy expensive lol

CyaNide- nope going for a change

kenny c - boulder is CRAZY expensive... not in my budget

[jluv]

jluv - Only examples I could think of would be something like mineral wells or weatherford, something small and close enough to drive into a major city. If money was not an option, I would be in winter park right now. But that place is crazy expensive lol

Gotcha. Well, pretty much all of the places I named off are way, way smaller than your examples (LC only has about 400 residents, and maybe half that during the winter). Durango is about the size of Mineral Wells, but it is considered the "big" city in Southwest Colorado. A drive to a major city would be several hours away. Grand Junction is bigger, but still not close to a major city.

To put it in perspective, Lake City is a solid hour away from the next closest town (Gunnison), the closest stoplight, fast food restaurant, actual grocery store, and the smallest Walmart in the country. And heck, Gunnison only has about 6k people, and is still almost 4 hours from Denver. We're at least 3 hours from the closest Home Depot, Lowe's, Target, etc.

Life is different out here, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. And like I said, you can find pretty good deals on homes here. Not crazy cheap, but not nearly as expensive as ski towns or a nice place in Denver. Come on down, and I will introduce you to everyone in town - it will only take a few minutes.

[racrguy]

Part of my deal was I told them I would come back and work a couple of weeks 3-4 times per year, but they don't really hold me to that. It just works well for us to be able to go back to Texas and see friends and family and eat good food and not have to take vacation time to do it. We just drive it because we have our dog to take with us.

When I started working from home, I was the only one doing it, but now that it has worked out so well, they have started letting others who have their shit together do the same thing. I'm still the only one working out of state, though.

I really do get way more done this way. When I get back from working a couple of weeks in the office, I have to play catch-up and get back in my groove.

We're toying with the idea of getting an RV and traveling around to state parks, staying for a couple of weeks at each and working from there during the week.

Dude, that sounds like an awesome plan.

[Jon/xpm]

I just got back in town today. That is a long drive.

Found a place in Pueblo.

Any place you recommend for boxes, bubble wrap, tape, etc

Is duct tape okay for moving? or is moving tape really needed?

How does the uhaul work for one way? Do they charge per mile because it is pretty close to 700 miles.

Thanks
Jonathan

[Sean88gt]

I just got back in town today. That is a long drive.

Found a place in Pueblo.

Any place you recommend for boxes, bubble wrap, tape, etc

Is duct tape okay for moving? or is moving tape really needed?

How does the uhaul work for one way? Do they charge per mile because it is pretty close to 700 miles.

Thanks
Jonathan

Why Pueblo? Big fan of Mesquite?

We used Hertz, it was considerably cheaper. We paid a day rate, plus mileage.

[bcoop]

Why Pueblo? Big fan of Mesquite?

I would imagine his budget dictated Pueblo. Not really cheap to live in any desirable parts of the state.

[Jon/xpm]

Sean88gt- I have family here. Was able to find a nice place for a good price. This will help eliminate some debt and get some savings rolling in. Plus it has nice view of the mountains and very active place to live.

[jluv]

I did two one-way U-Haul trips. I'm not sure if they charged by the mile or what, but it was all figured up in the quote before I picked up the truck. They didn't check mileage after that or anything, but it could have been part of their quote.

[Chili]

Just an FYI on Uhaul and the like.. You can ask for a couple of extra days on one way moves, and they can add it to the contract without additional charges (at least they used to). That way you aren't in such a hurry to get the move done. I have done it multiple times in the past, especially on interstate moves.

[BP]

He did grant me permission to work remotely while my wife was in the hospital, but IT said there was some sort of issue with our cisco phones being able to work. Likely that our IT department doesnt have a clue what they are doing with them.

You have to change actual network settings, reconfigure some settings on the local Cisco server AND change settings on your personal router for it to work. There are a couple of IT guys there with the know how but they don't want to go through the legwork of getting approvals to do the changes.

That and there is definitely a possibility of someone accessing their network through your home connection. It may not seem likely but people do hack into phones and make international calls through them. That's why the people they do let work remotely usually end up with software phones on their work provided laptop that run through a VPN tunnel. Which is throttled down so slow that it'll barely support voice calls under ideal conditions, throw in a little bit of network congestion and they don't work at all.