As far as these testimonials--I keep in touch with over a hundred people I trained. Through the years a number of them have come on different forums to explain their experiences, yet they ALWAYS get insulted/chased away by the envious and the haters. A favorite tactic is to claim they're me in alias form. So you can see why they choose to stay away from this stuff. I was prepared for all the BS from the start. Most of these people aren't. Understand that for almost 8 years, I put the weekly hurt on all the self-proclaimed vp "AP's" with my column in Gaming Today, and they will never get over it. So they attack anywhere they can to scratch that unattainable itch they have over me.
About the distance from the job: it wouldn't have been unusual to sell a house in one place and move close to where the work was. However, it was never really on the table because my wife had over 30 years with the aerospace co. she worked at, and it would not have made sense to mess up her continued employment, pension and other retirement benefits for what I was doing. And remember, living apart during the week or whatever was not an option, since us being together more often was one of the main reasons I changed careers in the first place.