If you bothered to read the rest of the thread, I said I wasn't opposed to moving to CO and I was actually looking forward to it.
I don't see what age has to do with anything.
I don't leech off my parents. They provide me with a room to live in, that is all. I do everything else myself, pay for everything else myself and help around the house and help pay for things. There is no leeching whatsoever.
Show me where I said I couldn't move out on 40k. I said I wasn't moving to CO for 40k, not that I wouldn't move out of the house.
You should have jumped at the $60k offer you got at first.
You seem to be doing a lot of double-speak here which is confusing. You are contracting for the company, but say (and it's accurate technically) you don't work for them.
You say you have been looking for a year and half for a job but haven't found any. Yet you are in a contract position.
Most of use assumed when you said your friends and family are there, you weren't actually living with family.
Here's the honest deal. Your company is offering home jobs only because any company does this when they relocate due to the fact that if they fired everyone or everyone quit they would be fucked.
So what they do is offer a nice relocation package (usually only too the ones they really want to move, along with a few they plan to terminate shortly after). This may not include any relocation assistance. Sadly this is like our pensions today....
Those that quickly buy in and move become the new trainer's for local hires. Those that tough it out are offered usually a slight demotion to work at home and still keep their job.
Once the critical mass is built those working at home recieve a registered letter telling them "thanks, be advised the paycheck you will receive next week [or included with the letter] is your last. You are no longer needed. kthxbyebye!"
I'd have taken the jump. When you first move out you don't know where anything is really anyway. It's not like you are going to die of starvation trying to find the grocery store there.
In the end you really aren't in a bad situation at all. You live at home still. While you are not a leech now...become unemployed and you know your parent's will not let you just die.
30+ years ago at 18 or after college you were told even by the best of parent's to move out. Some gave you your first 'bank account', some sent you to whatever college you got into whether by payment or grades, some sent you to the military, some got you a job with the family business or made that phone call to one of their 'people' about their kid that needs his first job, but not many allowed you to stay.
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