sorry, a couple days late on the update. here is the update @snazzlePop and other potential traders:

I have been back in the USA for 6 months as of like yesterday.

Things are, imo, not bleak by any mean. I have lots of support, good friends and family, plenty of savings, and opportunity (in the general sense), but as far as my personal satisfaction goes, I am lower on my life than I've been since coming back here so far.

Detailed explanations: I continue to see and enjoy spending time with my family again. I have made a few new friends as well as reconnected with old friends, some even more than I was connected with them before. My one part-time job is fulfilling and fun, but is inconsistent in terms of hours, and so even though the hourly is fine, it's unlikely to be able to support me, and there is no potential for full-time employment. The other part time job has nice people but pays dogshit and there may be opportunity for full-time employment but the pay would still be worse than the other job, is not exactly what I want to do, and currently is far from where I'm living. I do not like the amount of driving I'm doing.

Back in December I got in an accident (my fault) and my car was totaled by insurance. It was very humiliating and luckily the way it turned out, I actually came out ahead in the short term with my new vehicle, although my insurance premium is higher now which means long term I lose of course. But it could've been worse.

I reconnected some with my ex. I don't want to go into too much detail, but Although I'm glad I saw her there was a lot of bad shit in it for me and it kinda wrecked me emotionally and left me feeling very down. Very, very recently I met somebody new and there seems to be a tiny spark of potential, that would be great if something worked out.

I am struggling to find full-time satisfying and well paying work near my family. Matching all 3 of these desires (satisfying, decent paying, and near family) is largely what is causing me the greatest issue now.

I am barely able to cover my expenses with my part-time jobs even with living for free with my family. and I'm still uncovered in health insurance.

I am still exploring school options, but in my field I wish to pursue it seems incredingly unlikely that I can do that near where I am.

Now that I read this it doesn't seem horrible, but for my personal goals I'm quite disasatisfied.

If i was at least able to save more or have more time with a more conistent work schedule I would be happier.

I would love for traders to give any advice possible if they think it would raise the likelihood of YES resolution. I am very open! I may even add more liquidity to the market(?)

How are things now?

@snazzlePop Will update later today (spoiler: the estimations of my life right now are lower than they were before).

I would like to boost the boost the liquidity of this market if I can to attract more traders and hopefully solicit advice from people if I can.

How are things?

@DontGoHome Good question.

Update just shy of 2 months back in USA:

I got a car (and car insurance), and the 2nd part time job I was referencing in the last post. I also got a dresser for my clothes which was one thig I was sorely lacking while here. I am still not very well reconnected with old friends, but a few I'm rebonding with well. I got accepted into the short term program I was applying for and that is a huge boon to my long term positive outlook.

Other new things positive things: I went on a couple dates, and although they didn't go perfectly, the person was quite nice and we're becoming okay friends (I think). I've been able to see and do some various fun activities to feel part of the local scene again, and see almost all members of my family again at least once, and many a few times. I was also suggested to apply for a full-time promotion at the 2nd part-time job by some people there, because they think I'd be a good fit. There are many pros to applying for it, but it doesn't particularly align with my longterm goals so I'm not sure what to do just yet.

Some negatives: I am currently still struggling to get a good idea on how my financials look, as moving back has incurred lots of somewhat sizeable one-time purchases which I don't expect to have on the regular. I am driving way way way more than I want to, and I feel bad about it. My two part-time job work schedule has my hours being quite weird, and even though I'm not even working 40 a week, I feel as though I have less free time than I have in many years partially because of the strange and changing hours, but also the time I need to be in the car to get to the workplaces.

Overall, I would say I feel better about my life here than I did a month ago, which was better than I expected it to be after coming back, but there are still some major short and longterm concerns I have.

1 month update: I came back to the USA on September 14th, and miraculously in the first ten days I've managed to receive everything I shipped home (although i was charged more than I anticipated because of trump's tariffs affecting even personal use goods worth over $100 or something), I took my driving license test to re-acquire my license AND PASSED (i was actually nervous about that), landed a part-time job that may be a bit inconsistent in terms of hours but will pay well per hour, may land a second part time job, and have been able to take care of a few things necessary to settle my old life in Japan. I also applied to a program/school i hope to get into, won't find out until next month.

this is all generally positive stuff. so im feeling up about that.

on the flip side: ive still got to find a car to actually drive, get auto insurance, and also health insurance, im living rent free with my dad at the moment but i dont have all the space id like or furniture id like to have, and i generally abhor all the driving im having to do to get everywhere as a passenger or drive. and i am having a little trouble reconnecting with some old friends still.

You got this!!

@AbiA Thank you, thank you!

I'm betting 100 on sunk cost bias.

Are you ok with sharing the specific nature of the change?

@TheAllMemeingEye I may add more details later but for now I've filled it out a lot more. I hope the new description answers your question, specifically the "context" section.

Please ask any other questions you want :)

@No_uh thanks, that explains everything 👍

Projecting; 1 year is not enough adjustment time for me. But you'll probably think of the change fondly in 10 years.