Dan Minette wrote:
> So, why don't they get a job where the prices are reasonable?
> Look, I would have gone bankrupt if I kept my house in New
> England. I loved living there, but when my job was moved, and
> the value of my house fell through the floor, I couldn't have
> afforded to be unemployed for very long paying those house notes.
> So, I moved to a place where I really didn't want to live.
> Why am I being insensitive if I suggest others can do it too?
>
There are many reasons to stay in a place beyond employment. I have
septuagenarian parents _and_ in-laws here and wouldn't think of
moving to Minnesota because the economics were favorable, leaving my
father in law (on dialysis) to fend for himself.
The only way I would live in the old South is if they arrested and
extradited me (it would have to be for I crime I didn't commit). I
spent a year in Charleston S.C. at the end of my enlistment and I
hated the stifling heat and humidity that begins in March and
continues well into October.
Beyond all that, I love it here more than anywhere I've been - and I
love the North East as well, having grown up there. I'll spare you
the details but this is a wonderful place to live. I'm convinced
that that, as much as anything else, is why it's so hard to find
housing here.
A final note; things are changing. The Bush recession <G> has
caused a modest downturn in the real estate market. The median
price for a single family home is probably below a half million now.
A friend of mine at work says that the child care situation isn't
nearly as bad as it was just a year ago. He says where once there
was a waiting list of several months, there are now openings. His
wife is a grade school teacher and after years without any raises
her pay has increased substantially over the last few years. And
the traffic isn't nearly as bad as it was. But I still take the
train as often as possible.
--
Doug
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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the
higher consideration." A. Lincoln's First Annual Message to
Congress, December 3, 1861.
