Onward and Upward

Or at least that's the general idea. My husband and I both know what the final goal is. To move back to Portland. Getting there is the problem. We are not happy with our current home. Its a great little house but the simple fact is that we have a neighbor who likes to play his golden oldies really loudly on really bad speakers. We can hear it in the house over the noisy window air conditioner. I can sort of zen it out most of the time. Mitch however cannot stand it...it gets to him very badly. So in short we need to move because nothing we have done will change our neighbor. We have asked him to turn it down...met with belligerent "I can do what I want" response swearing included. We have called the police...when they finally got here he was gone. He is fairly nice when we see him in passing, waving or nodding hello....he is just completely unaware of the effect his music has on the people around him.

Neighbor issues set aside the goal is to move to Portland. We can't afford to rent or buy another place while we still own this one.....so we are hit with a dilemma. The housing market sucks right now...do we try to sell it now anyways and see what happens? Or, do we live here and look for jobs in Portland and commute if needed for a while so we at least are established up there (and neither of us love our current jobs as it is). But is commuting with the gas prices as they are too much of a hardship?

Stupid economy, stupid money. I suppose we should be happy that we have a house that we can afford and jobs that are somewhat secure (Mitch's anyway). But it is our nature to want what we don't have. So how do we get it?