Option A: Stay in apartment for 8 months, earn nothing, burn off cash for rent plus living expenses.
Option B: Immediately relocate to a job in a lower COL area. Earn money. Pay rent at new place, plus living expenses. If it suits you, also pay rent for existing apartment.
So long as new income exceeds cost of rental unit at new location, you will be money ahead at the end of the game.
There are places in low cost of living areas that pay $15/hr plus full benefits. I saw healt insurance mentioned as $27 every two weeks for a family of 2. One or two bedroom apartments for under $500.
Do the math. You can survive with a job like this. Staying in the existing apartment and complaining about how unfair life is will end poorly.
Option B: Immediately relocate to a job in a lower COL area. Earn money. Pay rent at new place, plus living expenses. If it suits you, also pay rent for existing apartment.
So long as new income exceeds cost of rental unit at new location, you will be money ahead at the end of the game.
There are places in low cost of living areas that pay $15/hr plus full benefits. I saw healt insurance mentioned as $27 every two weeks for a family of 2. One or two bedroom apartments for under $500.
Do the math. You can survive with a job like this. Staying in the existing apartment and complaining about how unfair life is will end poorly.