RW> Sure you can.  Of course it would cost you, I have never found 
RW> someone who would not let you buy out your lease.
RB> Ok, so that would be only @ $2400. That's expensive already,
RB> but let's go on: 
Most of the times you don't pay the entire amount.
RW> Huh?  A car, free boxes from almost any store in town and a $19.95 a 
RW> day U-Haul trailer and you're on your way.  Been there, done that, 
RB> Ok, we'll start with the car, which I do have, but it
RB> wouldn't make it anywhere 
RB> to re-locate, it would definitely break down. And it
RB> wouldn't tow a U-Haul  anyway. So, renting a U-Haul to go
RB> about 100 miles costs roughly $80. So,  moving to where that
RB> other guy was talking about (each 400-500 miles away at 
RB> least) would be several hundred dollars. 
Nope.  The last time I rented a U-Haul trailer, the
biggest they rent, to go from middle Missouri to the
Virginia coast it cost me a little over $200.
BTW, I towed it with a 1964 truck that I had to do work
on, on the side of the road twice.  Oh yeah, I had two
50+ lbs dogs, a cat and my six mouth old daughter in
the cab with me the entire way.
RB> And then you have the expense of moving into a new
RB> apartment, after FINDING one 
RB> in a different city (how do you do that?), which is first &
Real estate locators, newspapers, phone calls to real
estate agents before the move, etc.
RB> last month's rent,  plus deposit, which is about $1200,
RB> being conservative. 
This is the major problem.  Of course I have found that
if you are polite, well mannered and friendly you can
get some of this reduced.  But that's just personal
experience and doesn't always work.
RW> No very few people are willing to make the sacrifices. They are 
RW> either happy where they are or rather sit where they are and bitXh.
RB> Well, according to my calculations above, it would be
RB> roughly $4000 for me to  move to another city right now, and
RB> remember to figure in the incidentals,  which have often
Seems a bit high to me for a single person.  My first,
move I was single, everything was packed into my car.
Of course I had to sleep in my sleeping bag on the
floor for a while because I couldn't afford a furnished
apartment much less a bed.  Also I ate old southern
cheap food; white beans and corn bread twice a day and
bologna and cheese sandwiches for the other meal, for
about a month.
RB> be *lucky* to scrape together even 1/4 of that in about a
RB> month's time. Really, 
RB> really lucky. And I make $10 an hour!
Then if you want to move you have to scrape for six
months then you have the cash.  Again I'm not saying
you do this but. . .You'd be amazed how much money most
people could save if they would just pack a lunch
instead of going to MDs.  If they spend $3.50 a day and
stop its like getting close to a $0.05 /hr raise.
                      Remember:  Freedom isn't Free!
--- timEd-B11
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