So, Seattle sucks just as bad as Boston

When I admitted that I had made a huge mistake moving to Stinkassachusetts for career purposes, I began applying for jobs nationwide. This included quite a few responses to companies in the Seattle area, like Microsoft and Amazon (of course), plus another one of those dumb recruitment agencies (Yoh) that made contact with me, promised me the moon, and then went AWOL. Based on this latest conversation on the Indeed forum, I should never have wasted my time...

So, Pacific NW is out, New England is out. Ditto California. Let's be honest here. There really is NO geographic mobility in this country anymore (unless you're in one of those few "high demand" fields, not all of us are so lucky). Out of state job applicants are immediately disqualified for whatever bizarre reasons corporations and HR idiots fabricate. The only way to get a job in another state is to move there first and establish a residential address (PO boxes aren't allowed on most ATSs), which requires a good deal of money to do...and, if you do this and strike out in that state? Do it again and again and again, which seems pretty fucktarded to me. The last I checked, there is still no special work permit or visa required for an American to move from one state to another and be legally permitted to work -- you don't even need a passport (honest!). I remain convinced that had I remained in my depressed (and depressing) hometown of Pittsburgh, things would have turned out much better for me. So, there's another lesson for you kids out there. Don't ever leave your hometown. You'll never be accepted anywhere else, and you're going to need to start building up that crony network at a very early age (like, kindergarten).