On the Move?

I moved nearly a year ago, but don't really like it here. Good thing I literally can't stay much longer.

I live in Georgia, in a town whose rates are so stupidly high that you can immediately see it on a national housing rates map. The short version is, we're getting refugees from Atlanta, and the landlords/realtors are seeing dollar signs. Rates are doubling or even tripling. My job has allowed me to afford a reduced rent living with family, but they're almost certainly about to sell the house.

I've been considering moving to southern Illinois for a long time, and now it looks like it's no longer an option: I do it, or live in a car.

The area I'm eyeing is near a bunch of extended family (whom I now know will not try to lynch me), rates are rock-bottom, and jobs I'm qualified for are plentiful. Not to mention that getting my legal gender changed is trivial. (A legal name change, on the other hand, is twice as expensive? Freaking Illinois.) Plus the town in question has some of the best local restaurants in my opinion, so. You know. Obvious win.

I say all this like it'll be easy. I've never moved so far before, there are so many variables. I have to hope for the best.

Ideally, I'd find a tiny crummy old house that I can fix up and fill with an obnoxious amount of house plants. Am I good with plants? No! I keep two plants at the moment and they live on the razor's edge! But I still wanna, so there.