Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office,
Speaker 1: the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the
Speaker 1: new world of work, where location and hours are more
Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is to think
Speaker 1: about moving. Yes, that is a huge thing to consider it,
Speaker 1: but if your job can be done anywhere, it's important
Speaker 1: to consider whether somewhere else might have enough benefits to
Speaker 1: justify the pain of moving there. And maybe you will
Speaker 1: stay put, but you could move. You want to consider
Speaker 1: the possibility. One of the reasons my husband and I
Speaker 1: left New York City many years ago is that we
Speaker 1: realized that we didn't have particularly good reasons to stay.
Speaker 1: Neither of us had to be there daily for our jobs,
Speaker 1: and with young kids, we weren't exactly to taking advantage
Speaker 1: of the city's night life, so we looked for somewhere
Speaker 1: cheaper and where we could have more space. We wound
Speaker 1: up out in Pennsylvania, and neither of us particularly has
Speaker 1: to be here either, but we've got good schools and
Speaker 1: a much different lifestyle. If you are working from home
Speaker 1: long term, it's quite possible that your job can be
Speaker 1: done anywhere too, so you might consider if that anywhere
Speaker 1: should be somewhere other than where you are. First, a
Speaker 1: practical matter, maybe you want to move to a home
Speaker 1: where you could have a dedicated home office, especially if
Speaker 1: you and your spouse are both working from home. An
Speaker 1: office has some real upsides. Second, maybe you want to
Speaker 1: consider somewhere with a lower cost of living, somewhere that
Speaker 1: you could get that office. If you think you might
Speaker 1: be coming into your organization's physical offices one day a
Speaker 1: week in the future, you could expand your radius to
Speaker 1: within two hours of the office, rather than in the
Speaker 1: forty five minutes or so that you might deem tolerable
Speaker 1: for a daily commute. Commutes are terrible, but if you
Speaker 1: don't have to make it much, that changes the equation.
Speaker 1: There can be a wide variance in the cost of
Speaker 1: living within a two hour radius, so you might find
Speaker 1: somewhere lovely. Of course, you might also go looking for
Speaker 1: somewhere lovely. Plenty of people would love to live by
Speaker 1: the beach or in the mountains. If you can work
Speaker 1: from anywhere, maybe you want to try a place that
Speaker 1: will make you smile every time you look out the windows,
Speaker 1: and that will make your weekend activities all kinds of
Speaker 1: fun and of course, you might consider moving to people.
Speaker 1: If you've got young kids, Living near family can save
Speaker 1: you quite a bit of money on babysitting, to say
Speaker 1: nothing of the upside of growing up around grandparents or cousins.
Speaker 1: This might also be wise if you have relatives who
Speaker 1: need more care, and trying to manage that from afar
Speaker 1: is going to be quite complicated. Now, moving is a
Speaker 1: lot of hassle, and it can be expensive, but it's
Speaker 1: also over within a limited timeframe, and then you can
Speaker 1: start enjoying your new home. If you don't have to
Speaker 1: stay where you are, why not take some time today
Speaker 1: to consider if you want to stay where you are.
Speaker 1: Maybe you do, you probably chose it for a reason,
Speaker 1: but if not. When you work from home, far more
Speaker 1: of the world becomes a possibility. In the meantime, This
Speaker 1: is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to succeeding in
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