Advice on moving appreciated

[Sherbil]

Tackle your depression first. It's what's sapping the energy out of you to make the most of what you have. If you can resolve that, you can feel better and then have just that much more momentum to get somewhere you'd like to be.

I firmly believe that with the Internet at our fingertips, we can find ways to be happy wherever we are. I'm like you in that I'm stuck in a small town without any really great exit strategies right now due to finances, but I've found that I don't really have to be stuck. I spent a long while wishing I could move anywhere but here, and then I did move to a city. But what I found out was that the same self-limitations that held me down here also held me down there. I came back to this cheap small town, focused on my future, got a new career, and bettered myself. I'm still "stuck", but I'm not unhappy and I'm not in a hurry. I'm not wasting days, and you don't have to either. I learn new things every day via sites like Coursera. I'm teaching myself to play guitar with tabs programs. I use YouTube videos to work on learning how to dance. There's so much you can do if you have the motivation to try.