"Joe" wrote:
A person making 100K in Houston will have to earn 158,938 dollar in
Stamford just to maintain the same standard of living.


I would say it's impossible to maintain the same standard of living in
Connecticut. Most places are crowded & dirty, poster settings for
"urban decay" yet with very high rents.

Somebody should explain to Binary Bill what "per capita" means. The
average personal income in eastern Connecticut is so high because of
all the Wall Streeters who have homes there and are flown into the
city by private helicopter every morning. Meanwhile, everybody else is
pretty much stuck in a rut.... they aren't even allowed to drive thru
the neighborhoods which jack up the average so much.....


Frank Boettcher wrote:
Many years ago, went for a job transfer interview with Combustion
Engineering, in Windsor, CT. Job interview in May. Living in Tulsa
at the time. Came home and my wife and I struggled with whether we
should or could afford to take the job given the difference in the
cost of living, and particularly housing.

That weekend it snowed in Windsor. Snow in May? No more struggling,
decision made.


Good call IMHO.
Back in the mid-90s I started getting job offers from some big
companies, usually headquartered in Jersey bust ome in NYC. They
offered twice what I was making here in NC, a few even tossed in
corporate incentives; in no case was I seriously tempted. I may have
been in the rat race down here, but I don't have to go home to a rat
pit at the end of the day.

Another issue of course is that my wife is very content with her
career at a world-renowned university medical center.... we were
slightly tempted a few years ago when she got a very very generous
offer from an equally renowned place in Cali, and I shopped for (and
got) a job offer out there too. But a walk in the woods with the dog
convinced there was nothing out there... not even sailing on SF
Bay.... worth the added hassles.


It is very pretty country though, in the townships not the cities.


As long as you don't have to drive in the traffic, most of NW
Connecticut is very pretty. That's one reason why the Indians are
buying it back!

Regards
Doug King