Puck’s Blog

Last week, Mel officially accepted a job offer from eBay and starting in two weeks will be working at their Burnaby office as a Team Supervisor in (I believe) online support. She’d been courted by a few companies through a headhunter but eBay was the first to finish up (some putting on a hiring freeze right after expressing interest).

Before their official offer we sat down and talked about what it would take to get us to leave Chilliwack. We both love it here, and it’s a much cheaper place to live than further west towards Vancouver, but we couldn’t fool ourselves that this would be a great opportunity for her and could certainly be worth it if the money was right. So it all hinged on that. I won’t go into specifics, but the offer was quite a bit above our “we’ll make a hard decision” level, so there really wasn’t any discussion about it at all. She simply had to take the job.

So she’ll be commuting for the first while, and I’ll be looking for a place for us. We’ll be looking at moving in the new year, and I’d like to get a place as close to where she’ll be working as we can. We’ll be renting, and though we’re just two + our awesome dog we’ll be looking at a two or three bedroom house if we can find one for the right money. We could rent a townhouse, I guess, though with our DVD sound system’s woofer I think we should give our neighbours some separation.

So if anyone has a reasonable two-three bedroom house in North Burnaby for rent, let me know!