Little about me, i grew up in the south. Tried going to community college there, wound up having to take a semester off after finishing pre recs, since the program I was trying to get into didn’t start yet. So I couldn’t stay in the dorms, anywho, I went to try and stay with my mom, who was staying with some guy? Idk his name anymore, but the place didn’t have AC, and was just NOT it. “Not trying to live in a crackhouse” tried staying with my brother, slept on his couch for a week, he and his gf at the time who was my moms age btw, fought CONSTANTLY. Like full on screaming matches, like our parents used to do. “Keep in mind both of them were actively using meth at the time, no idea if they are now” decided I couldn’t stay there, so I got a hotel room, and paid for a week. Moved out of my brothers place while he was gone, next day he showed up to my work and said if I didn’t pay him he’d beat my ass, said I had no soul, and basically just said I was a good for nothing piece of shit. So, I looked online for places that paid the most for CNAs with a low cost of living, “I was a CNA, and worked at a metro t mobile place while in the south, had 2 jobs at the time” and landed on Arizona, so I packed my shit, started applying like crazy to hospitals in Arizona, when I landed a job, I drove out there, got into Tucson on my 20th birthday with nothing but my car, some clothes, and everything I could fit in my car. Found a place on fb marketplace for 850 a month, stayed there for a while, found the love of my life after abt a year or so, landlord wouldn’t let her move in and tried to raise my rent to 1350 for her visiting so much, so I found an apartment, moved into it with her, stayed there for abt a year before the AC went out in our unit and had to leave since it was like 100F in there, stayed with her mom for a month while I was putting together the money for a down payment on a new manufactured home, signed the papers, bought a 2026 3 bed 2 bath 1050 sqrft home for us, started surgical tech school, currently graduating in March. AMA