Flag Pole Pear said:
ok meeganie, forgive me for asking but...
whats going on? i know dc is under a huge threat right now, but out of curiousity is this why your leaving? i mean it may sound stupid to hear me asking this, but i dont really understand whats going on.
your job sucks, your fiance lives in england (right?) and you have absolutely no reason to be in dc other than to get a paycheque?
sounds like a good reason to me. cant you get a work visa in england?
where does your family live, if i may ask?
i think if my family didnt live in dc, and i were in the same position as you, id leave too. 
The article gheto posted gives some insight into the situation here, and there are a few other things that have been heard around here becasue the members of Congress were briefed this morning about a specific threat to the Capitol complex (the Capitol building and the office buildings surrounding it -- they're all attached by a lot of tunnels in the basement). A friend of a friend works for the DC police and he told her not to come into work on Friday. Several offices have talked about closing.
It's not a fear of dying or anything like that. I might very well die on the plane flying over there. But at least I'd feel like I'm doing something. Nothing I want is in DC. The only thing keeping me here is the income. My dad and stepmom live in North Carolina, my mom and brother live in Indiana, and the rest of my family lives in southern Virginia. I only see them once or twice a year as it is.
I was talking to my coworkers about it and one of them put it pretty well, I think. He compared it to waiting in airport. I know where I'm going, but I'm just sitting here waiting for it. I have to decide where I'd be happier. There might never be another time when I can do something like this. I have nothing tying me down apart from the money. I have enough to get there and live for several months, and hopefully I'd find a job by then. My lease is month to month now, so even that's not an issue (though it would be REALLY mean to abandon my roommate).
Someone also mentioned that if we go to war, there's a possibility it'll be difficult for me to leave in September. I don't know what's going to happen and my life is there, not here, so I don't know if it's worth risking just to hope nothing happens and I can keep working through August and fly out as planned.
I'm getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow and I'll be recovering on Friday, so I'll have a five-day weekend. If nothing happens this weekend, I can make a decision, get my stuff together, and be out of here by the middle of next week, probably. So now I just have to think on it.
Meggy 
) and life can get pretty bleak when job sucks but takes up all your time, friends/boyfriend are far away, it's freezing outside all the time.. just hold on meegannie - I know things will turn up soon. Do pros/cons etc and after giving it some rational thought- maybe the best thing *would* be to move. Luckily the internet goes pretty much whereever you do so we're with ya 
i will have to say that i felt very safe at the Orlando and Atlanta airports yesterday and today.
