Honolulu, Take II

Well, I had a seriously lovely surprise yesterday morning. Fortuitous. Serendipitous.

For the last couple of months, under the gun of possibly being laid off, I have been researching options. I am currently enrolled in an EMT-B program. Since I'm fairly certain that I'm going to be laid off, I needed a way to get a job in a crappy market; since Massachusetts is in the midst of a hugescandal involving paramedics/emts falsifying re-certifications, chances are good that I will be able to land one pretty fast.
I've been kicking around the idea of moving to Hawaii for some time, now. I'm quite serious about it, actually, which is a change for me. Arranging a cross-country move is hard enough, and the move is trans-Pacific. So I figured that returning would be a good idea to get a feel for the place outside of the scope of vacation.

That brings us to yesterday.
One of the few friends (seriously, like, 3) who lives in Honolulu sent me a message asking when I was coming back. I responded that I'd return when I knew what my vacation allotment would be. Out of boredom while standardizing the Karl Fischer autotitrator, I checked out flights at Orbitz.

I found a roundtrip flight from Logan to Honolulu for $587.

So, hot damn! I bought it, and am returning to check out apartments, employment, and education situations when I go there. (I almost typed 'home.' I should have left it that way!)

It's destiny!

Relocation

So for a while I've been pondering picking up and moving. I'm leaning heavily towards Honolulu, HI, for a multitude of reasons, mostly stemming from it's lack of snow, ice, and nine months of winter.

I spent a week in Honolulu in March, and it was AMAZING. I have dreams that I am still there; that I never left, and that I'm working in a bakery (which is hilarious to me, because I can't eat anything in  a bakery) and sharing an apartment with six other people.


While this pipedream is seriously not gonna happen, I am making moves to make the move itself actually happen. I'm downsizing my living expenses in a big way, and am looking actively for a position and apartment there. I have never really made a cross-country move like this, and am more interested in knowing if it's actually possible.


I'm not looking to stay permanently, but I am looking to stay for up to 5 years. Heres hoping for good times and success in my endeavour.