We would lo be to be able to move, but we spent 6 months looking for another place to live, but could not find anything with three or four bedrooms that we could afford. Everything was above our price range and we looked not just in our town but in others as well. With having my seventeen year old living with me full-time, my other two little ones every Thursday to Sunday and my girlfriend's son every other weekend, that many rooms is a must. Every place we looked would be more expensive than here unless we wanted to live in not so nice neighborhoods.
The problem is that I have to stay within a fifty mile radius of where my kid's mom lives per state law and my girlfriend needs to be as close to her job as she can. She works for the state revenue department and while she would like to find another job, she will not find one that pays what she gets paid now and with the benefits package to go with it.
We're also below the sixty days notice threshold and it would be more expensive to move then it would be to stay. I did talk to someone in the leading office yesterday and they are letting us stay with a cheaper rent, not by much though and we aren't going to have to pay the pet rent, which is what caused the monthly to be so high.