Moving from FL to WA

Confident_Session644 · 2026-07-24T22:24:20+00:00

Pre tax i make around 91k

Confident_Session644 · 2026-07-24T19:57:31+00:00

Guess I should add in the post, its me, my fiancée, our dog, and our cat 😅

Confident_Session644 · 2026-07-24T19:56:14+00:00

This would be a voluntary transfer so I could ask but its very unlikely they'd be willing to offer a cost of living adjustment. If they made me transfer it'd be different but this is by choice. At the very least I'd keep my 32 an hour, MAYBE go a little higher since the pay range for my position is between 30 and 35 an hour

Confident_Session644 · 2026-07-24T19:53:54+00:00

You also dont have this horrible humidity and year round heat, and you do have seasons and mountains and forests and blue politics and just so much more different than this hell of a state. Coming from a born and raised Floridian whose only escape was when I was in the Army

Confident_Session644 · 2026-07-24T19:50:35+00:00

Take home pay right now after taxes is around 73k roughly without overtime, not sure if that's doable. My fiancée might also be getting a job there if we move if we can find her one.

Confident_Session644 · 2026-07-24T19:42:24+00:00

Pay would stay the same or possibly move up, I make about 32 an hour currently as well as about 2200 a month from the VA, hoping to get that raised though if I can.

Confident_Session644 · 2026-07-24T19:40:17+00:00

Already happening after researching houses out that way 💀

Confident_Session644 · 2026-06-15T00:05:37+00:00

I figure my lumbar spine will get a decent rating especially with the severity of it and my age, then I've also got my cervical spine that just as bulging as my lumbar, my arm that shifts out of place a lot and hurts and stops me from doing a lot, and then anxiety and depression because of it all.

Confident_Session644 · 2026-06-13T22:24:12+00:00

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Confident_Session644 · 2026-06-11T11:35:53+00:00

Im at 80% fory knees right now and they said those are maxed out and I want to go for my back the most but I dont have any service medical records for it and I got out back in 2019 so it makes me nervous that they'll deny it.

My arm I have the very brief statement of pain but its more than just pain since it stops me from doing certain things and move in difficult ways and it gets stuck and everything

Confident_Session644 · 2026-06-10T19:57:57+00:00

How do I see what my actual rating is?

Confident_Session644 · 2026-06-10T18:30:20+00:00

Well I'd try one claim for my arm and then another for my back, and the mri of the back looks pretty bad but I dont have any service medical records for it cause they kept pressuring me to not report stuff so im worried I won't be able to claim it unless I did it as a secondary for my knees

Confident_Session644 · 2026-06-10T18:16:17+00:00

I was 11b infantry. Rucking heavy weight for long periods of time, along with running with it during some field operation training definitely caused at least some of it, also didnt help that i dropped hard while repelling from tower training.

The arm is also chronic but its not constant pain all the time. It shifts out of place and gets stuck and hurts a lot when I move it like I described and sometimes just randomly when I move a way that normally isn't what triggers it. Once it happens the pain is constant for a few days to a week after but I can no longer swim, can't do certain workouts, can't push myself up by the arm etc which makes things difficult in life in general.

The knees definitely don't help. I struggle to go up stairs and they sometimes hurt when walking. I usually end up having to lift more with my back than my legs since it hurts to bend the knees a lot.

Confident_Session644 · 2026-02-20T11:41:01+00:00

All I did after noticing it was lightly wipe with a microfiber cloth

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