It is time to repeal this difficult and frustrating law. The original chairman that pushed this law very hard is former congressman F. James Sensenbrenner. He fought tooth and nail to make it frustrating, at least the frustrating Driver License Agreement (DLA) did NOT survive outside of the committee meetings before it was passed. The DLA requires traffic tickets from anywhere within North America be reported to the state you are licensed in and requires the state you are licensed in to report the ticket to your insurance company and price hike/cacellation of policy. The Senate was very much against the DLA due to its international aspects like Mexico and Canada.

I m now almost 46 years old. I worked as a Unix Sys Admin for many years. Since January 2008, got laid off with my previous employer (major DoD company based out of Maryland), did some part time teaching with a local university and still doing it today and now work for a DB company now. What caught my eye in this article is someone older is not willing to relocate. I have lived in Colorado since 1995 and there are very few places I would consider living elsewhere. Top of my list is New Zealand and then West Coast.

My previous employer came to me one day and told me I had to relocate to the Washington DC area for the same pay, barely enough money to rent a moving truck and I had to take vacation time to move. When I asked for more, I was told either move to Virginia or it was the door. I took the door. A month after I got laid off, I got a part time teaching position and still doing it to this day and really like it and would eventually like to get out of the corporate world for good and do teaching full time.

Relocation to the East Coast especially the Washington DC area doesn't "float my boat". Totally different lifestyle there where putting in 40 hours is considered slacking off, you are expected to attend company sponsored community events outside of your work hours and you are expected to like dressing up as well.