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Base housing and live ashore
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Permalink Reply by Abby on
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Well, my question was answered today. It looks like we'll for sure have to wait for his live ashore approval, as I suspected. Oh well, maybe it won't take too terribly long, haha!
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Hi Abby, I was reading your older post and was wondering how long after your hubby had his. PIR were you able to move up? And how was the move money reimbursed? My SR is graduating soon and is going to be in A school there for AECF, not sure if it's FC or ET yet, he probably found out today. I'm just trying to plan about how long before me and the kids can move. Thanks in advance :)
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Well, his PIR was June 21st and I moved up July 28th. He had to wait nearly 3 weeks until he was phase 2 (Holiday hold due to 4th of July added a couple of days) before he could request live ashore and put in for base housing. As soon as he hit phase 2 and talked to housing, we had a house. Unfortunately, since we had them move our stuff (which I would still recommend) we had to wait for the paperwork to go through with the movers. They didn't actually pick up our things until August 12th and didn't deliver until August 18th. We still got some traveling expenses money and dislocation allowance, but I believe we didn't get that until the end of August. But, yes, we went without furniture for 3 weeks (and we have a baby too)! It really wasn't that bad since we drove and just packed the car with as much as would fit (including some pots and pans)... Oh and our apartment didn't come with a microwave haha! But it was totally worth it though since his live ashore got approved just a few days after I got here :)
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Thanks Abby, they eases my mind a little, I was worried it was going to take a lot longer. Another quick question, how is the area? How's the base housing? Also, I'm thinking we might need to live in regular rental house, do you recommend any certain areas to move to or stay away from?
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Sorry, I haven't been checking my email very often! Um.. Libertyville, Lake Bluff and Gurnee are pretty nice. There are areas in Waukegan and North Chicago that aren't so nice. Base housing is not too bad. I would recommend it for sure. Some people say they can save money by getting off base housing and pocketing the extra BAH, but I did a little research and could really only come up with a couple of places that didn't take all of the BAH (and then some!), and with those, they were about 20 minutes from base, so we would have been spending the excess BAH on gas.
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