I’ve been at work doing open mic, not a single person played; I spent the whole night sat down contemplating my future and I have come to the conclusion that I have no future here in Plymouth. Job prospects are poor, I could take a humdrum job and get paid £10k per year, which is rubbish; the average wage in Plymouth is £22.5k apparently, but that seems to be an urban myth, I know one person that gets paid that, everyone else is on £10k p/a or less. So I can never get on the property ladder because if someone that earns £22.5k can’t afford to buy without a hefty deposit, then what hope does the average Plymothian have? Work is slow again this month, only a handful of gigs; between gigs being cancelled and Karrallon playing every second Friday bringing in their own soundsystem and engineer completely unnecessarily; money is going to be tighter than tight this month. I can count my friends in Plymouth on one hand, I have lost a whole load of friends recently, guess you know who your friends are when I stop putting them before myself, all been well documented on here. I want to be able to move to the US to be with Erin and Conner ASAP as they make me so happy and life here is frankly getting me down really badly. But without money, paying the £72 for a passport is going to be difficult enough, let alone raising the money for the airfare. I have wanted to get out of Plymouth for some time and Erin has given me that added incentive to make it happen. I wasn’t planning on moving 5,500 miles away from Plymouth, but if that’s where my future happiness lies then that’s what’s going to happen! It’s not like it’ll be forever, but I am sure as hell not coming back to Plymouth, need to live somewhere else in the UK where I have better job prospects to actually use my skills.