What's the first step to moving interstate?

Make sure you’re guaranteed a job there before you move.

How do you go about securing an interstate job then?

Find a job, then find a place to live. Doing it the other way around is potentially disastrous.

If you have money saved, and you check in advance that there are a fair number of openings in your field, you could just take the plunge and move to the city. Once there, make finding a job your full-time goal.

Your young, just go if you have some money. It is much easier to get a job when you already live somewhere. If you can go somwhere that you have at least one friend or family member that you can crash for a few weeks that might make things easier. I’m guessing if it doesn’t work out you can always go home…so it’s an adventure!

I did that, after college I moved to Florida, I stayed with a distant cousin for a couple of weeks and then a friend for a couple of weeks and by then I found a roommate to live with and a job. My job wasn’t the perfect job, but it was good enough and a lot of people my age worked there (really all ages it is FL after all) so I made new friends, and I loved living in FL.

Since you work for government, any possibility of a job transfer?

@MagsRags an interstate job transfer would be ideal, but the department that i am working for has just undergone a restructure and i dont have permancy. My boss has told me to stick in there and i will get it, but who knows how long that will take – and even then, i would have to wait another 6 months after i get permancy until the probation period is up.