* technical problems with the posting. Lost your post of about 22 minutes ago (it showed here but disappeared) as well as my most recent reply. But both show in the Activity page. I copied my reply from there:

Dear Lester:

I like your thinking. So you are pretty clear about what you want and what you need: you do want to travel, first stop being Puerto Rico. You need $5000 to do so. Your passion and dream is to build a farm.

I like moving to Chicago and paying something like $300 rent there, getting a job there. You hate your current job, so there can only be improvement on the job you find in Michigan- unless it is a back breaking job (watch your health and physical safety above all!)

It doesn’t make sense to try to save money in Santa Barbara. In a two bedroom apt you will only save a couple of hundreds dollars a month and… you hate the job. Doing a job you hate is really bad for your health and you will pay the price over time. Better quit this job, move out to Michigan/ elsewhere where the rent is low and a job is possible. I think