probably
and of course things like "$11.20 vs national median of $12.50 per hour." sound bad until you factor in the lower cost of living.
Moving from Houston would mean I'd need to increase my salary quite a bit in order to maintain my standard of living: Chicago 27% Seattle 32% LA 48% San Francisco 78% http://www.bankrate....g-calculator.aspx |
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You wouldn't live in the city anyway
You're more of a Schaumburg kind of guy. That would cut your property taxes, lower your sales taxes, lower your gasoline taxes, give you a higher valuation for your home, have a superior school system, etc.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow |
TX is #1!
- (lincoln)
- (6)
- June 16, 2011, 07:48:13 PM EDT
Re: TX is #1!
- (lincoln)
- June 16, 2011, 08:18:10 PM EDT
Re: CA
- (drook)
- (4)
- June 16, 2011, 09:12:51 PM EDT
Minimum wage here is $8.00, so . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- June 16, 2011, 09:17:07 PM EDT
Yeah, that could have something to do with it :-/
-NT
- (drook)
- June 16, 2011, 09:18:28 PM EDT
probably
- (SpiceWare)
- (1)
- June 16, 2011, 10:04:22 PM EDT
You wouldn't live in the city anyway
- (lincoln)
- June 17, 2011, 07:53:06 PM EDT