manchester123

looking into North Dakota now too Thanks giantaxe

Pulaski

Please tell us you don't mean retail sales. Jobs in retail are really bad here, poorly paid, and with minimal time off. Also there is hardly a week goes by without a major retailer announcing major layoffs and closures. Several retailers are teetering on the brink - Sears, JC Penny, KMart, among others. Just about anyone who understands the retail market in the US knows that retail has a long way to fall: there is six TIMES more space per capita devoted to retail sales space (buildings) in the US than anywhere else in the world. A correction to this anomaly was already overdue, but Amazon and the online retail revolution is going to dramatically accelerate the process.

In short, if "retail sales" is your career plan, please either come up with a different career plan, or seriously reconsider your plan to emigrate to America.

manchester123

thanks for the info pulaski, hes after any sales, we have a background is call centre/ car sales. or something to do with his engineering degree he will be looking at. There seems to be a lot of car sales

Cardienscarf

Colorado. Hot and dry in the summer. Cold in the winter. 300 days of sunshine a year. Very low humidity. Beautiful scenery. Very good employment in the Denver Metro area.

Hotscot

North Dakota.
Lots of jobs in the oil industry. However 40 degrees below zero in winter.

Sales jobs...very difficult to come by unless you have very specific experience in the particular market. However it's dog eat dog and salaries aren't great. Many organization have a hiring freeze or downsizing. (I know a lot about technical sales.)

However check out Indeed.com.

Not a rosy scenario over here at all. I know I wouldn't move thinking it would be better.

manchester123

colorado looks beautiful, but from what ive researched it seems it quite expensive to live there?

we are moving as my husband has wanted to move back to his home country for a while now, and it just seemed there were more opportunitys over there in certain states?

and obviously much better weather than here lol

Hotscot

I'm not really aware of better opportunities here. It's a race to the bottom generally.

Better weather? I dislike the weather here in Southern California with the relentless heat and sunshine and drought. No joke.

Giantaxe

That's not obvious to me... at least, not for large parts of the country.

Hotscot

Half the country is deluged in snow and freezing rain. Other half is being toasted.

Cardienscarf

Depends where you live. Boulder is very expensive as are parts of Denver but the Old Highlands area in Denver is worth a look as are towns outside Denver. Young and trendy, lots going on. And there's always the western slope - Grand Junction is a lovely town.

I wouldn't say the weather is better, it's just different - like everything else

manchester123

so would you say it is quite difficult to get a job in the US? compared to the UK?
weatherwise, i think were just fed up of the cold and the rain, especially in manchester we would much prefer hotter sunnier weather...

Hotscot

Yes indeed. Depending of course the level your aiming for...jobs are hard to get. Of course that's generalizing a bit.

I wouldn't come here thinking it would be easy.

Certainly sales jobs that pay in the region 50K -75K are tough to find. There's a glut of young graduates from the past 10 years and employers can hire them cheaply. Additionally employers are very stringent in hiring practices these days with multiple interviews and extensive personality testing. Also very little security...you could find a dream job only to be laid off at the drop of a hat. It's harsh.

Have a quick look at Indeed.com and see if there's anything that would fit hubby's background.

Orangepants

Take a look at Forbes fastest growing cities - never been to Austin, Texas but looking at a long weekend there soon, heard very positive things about it. Also consider the Carolinas - the triangle area - around Raleigh.
The Carolinas have great weather.

Cardienscarf

This is worth a read.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/job...-economy/8575/

Uncle_Bob

Moss Side to Phoenix, AZ. After 10 years of bone soaking warmth I'm still waiting for the too much thing to kick in

OP what about Charleston, SC?