Where to move to next?
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Syrup Beaver
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To be honest, Cleveland has all of the ingredients to be an epic city. Just absolutely catastrophic city planning.
None of that will matter when the next ice age hits and puts you under 150 feet of ice
I realize this is suppose to focus on Cleveland, but they pull Phoenix out in July and comment about no rain, well no duh, we don't get rain in June/July. We get rain in Aug, and then Nov-Feb, everyone knows that. We have lots of 30 or so days without rain, who cares. We live in the middle of the desert.
Any major city, really. Dallas has a great job market, great schools, and great neighborhoods. A lot of affluent people live here, and so do shitloads of hobos. It also has the benefit of not having been built on a swamp, unlike Houston. It gets hot and humid here, it's Texas after all, but not as hot or humid as the Hue. Or whatever Houstonites call their town. Houston is technically the biggest city in Texas, though the metroplex of Dallas/Fort Worth probably has more people at this point. I'm not sure. I do know that DFW is at least 380 miles wide. It would take a month and a half to drive from one side to the other in rush hour traffic.
Anyway, Houston has a pretty large job market due to its size. It also boasts the jewel known as the Houston Ship Channel, one of the most polluted industrial waterways in the Milky Way. It is a little known fact that the HSC is surpassed in terms of toxicity only by the infamous Halcyon Foundry Spillway on the planet Fraes in the Upsilon Andromedae system, where it is also rumored that the adamantium in Wolverine's body originated from.
Austin is the park city. Green green green. Trails, lakes, and nature. Everyone I have ever known who has lived in Austin has loved it. I know people who bicycle to work down there. Unheard of in Dallas. You'd die in any of 100 different ways. Austin also has a great music scene from everything I've heard. I can't personally verify this though and quite frankly it isn't important to me anyway. It's music, who gives a shit. I'm more of a lake goer, hiker, internet surfer, checkoutthefunbagsonthatoneer.
San Antonio has the best food. Bar none. Their mexican food is probably the only reason that city is still there. Three times as many Mexicans live there as in the entire country of Mexico. If you don't speak Spanish, don't like to eat, and aren't Catholic you may be better off somewhere else.
Galveston isn't there anymore. The ocean got fed up with kids urinating on the beach and threw its hands up in the air. I think it's just a long broken fence with scrub grass now.
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i want to keep you in my pocket, sarcasmo.
edit: would you agree to it if i said it could be the breast pocket of my shirts?
edit: would you agree to it if i said it could be the breast pocket of my shirts?
I didn't read the past 14 pages, but I vote for the pacific northwest, I love that kind of weather. I am bias though because I want to move there and it isn't feasible.
Thats cruddy you will lose money selling your house, we are in the same prediciment. We've had our house 5 years and won't be able to sell our house for what we bought it for
Good luck in the job search!
Thats cruddy you will lose money selling your house, we are in the same prediciment. We've had our house 5 years and won't be able to sell our house for what we bought it for
Good luck in the job search!
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
Actually it will be 4 times the price in Denver.
But my salary won't be 4 times higher. Actually it is lucky to be 0.25 higher.
And my favorite beer comes from Delaware
You know, Maryland is right next to Delaware.
I think it's the fact that people keep desparately trying to grow grass where it's not supposed to grow and use tons of water for stuff like that when there isn't really water to be used.
Lies and slander. Maryland has excellent roads.
So in doing some research, all of the places I was looking at the home costs are 5 times as high as in cleveland area. But the salary for the cost of living bump is less than 2 times as high. Is that just how skewed the housing market is in the country? Is that how cheap Cleveland is? How can anyone move from a depressed market like Cleveland? I can't afford much more than I have right now with what I make and I certainly can't make six figures to compensate someplace else, nor are there jobs for that much.
Looks like I am sunk
You may have to settle for renting at first. This isn't a bad thing, though, since it lets you get to know the town and work out the trade offs in selecting one area over another.
I suspect it's only northern Virginia that's expensive. This makes sense, though, as is near DC and, consequently, has plenty of job opportunities.
Oh, and DBZ, what's this beer from Delaware you like so much? I can't think of anything out of Delaware off the top of my head.
It's most of VA that's expensive, actually. And surprisingly the same as WV, too expensive for what you get.
And I am pretty sure Dogfish Head is in Delaware.
When I lived in Texas we would call Nacadoches Nacanowhere.
You just reminded me of that.