Dear Lester:

I used to live in Santa Monica and visited Santa Barbara many times. I know about the standard of living there and indeed, it seems hopeless, your salary vs the rent alone.

In your original post you wrote: ” I recently just got a job and the job is okay. It pays enough for me to afford a place to stay and basic necessities. It’s okay but I’m quickly getting bored every single day.”

In your more recent post you wrote: ” The truth is the job is not okay. I hate it. I feel like I’m wasting every second of my life doing it. I feel like a slave. I work a job that I completely hate..”

We do tend to make believe the truth is not as bad as it is, don’t we?

And then the numerical truth, the income vs the rent is a very exact part of the truth.

Since living in Puerto Rico has been a lifelong dream and since you’ve always been interested in organic farming and since you hate your job every single day and since you can’t save, given the low income and high expenses (so you are basically, as you mentioned, a slave of some sort), then it does make sense to leave to Puerto Rico.

Between slavery and a lifelong dream, it is a no brainer.

anita