I NEED A JOB!!!
10-01-2008, 12:19 AM
#12
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: California
Posts: 142
Wow 14% I think the nations average is like 7.9 and on the way up last time I heard...moving out of state wouldn't be that bad of a option, but I could never get my wife away from her family and sadly I'm a california guy born and raised. Not to even mention we are upside down like crazy on our house.
10-01-2008, 08:29 AM
#13
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 1,019
Better idea. Move to south texas. We are so short handed that we are using illegals to make up for the work force. We have no choice. We need more people and houses here are 1/3 the price anywhere else in the USA. Not to mention that pay rate is not too bad if you have experience and contacts.
I also kept hearing about the horrible housing market at the first part of this year but we bought a new house before selling the old one. I moved in late December then spent a month or so fixing up the old place. When I put a sign in the yard at the old house I had an offer in six days then closed in late March.
I don't know but things are not bad at all in our neck of the woods.
Think Waffles is probably right about Michigan in general. Even years ago before I got out of public accounting I had a client that had a branch in Michigan. They were a public traded retail type outfit. They kept complaining about the high state taxes there and we came up with a complex idea of using leased employees, etc to lower the burden but then a partner on the job took a step back, noted that branch had never made money and suggested we just get the hell out of that state. Ultimately, that is exactly what the client did, closed those stores and hit the state line at a dead run.
Hope things work out for ya and keep your chin up but if all else fails we would be happy to have another classic Stang in Texas
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10-01-2008, 08:48 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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10-01-2008, 08:52 AM
#15
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Location: North East Texas on the Red River
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Here is a solution. http://www.goarmy.com And no...I am not trying to be a wiseass.
SGT E-5, US Army, July '68 to July '71
10-01-2008, 09:26 AM
#17
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Intergalactic HQ
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I retired from the Army in 1998. Since then worked as a DoD contractor and am now Department of the Army Civilian.
I can't complain.
The Army (and maybe also the Navy) has raised the enlistment age to 42.
If you do decide to join the Army let me know first though since they are offering a $2000 referral bonus to the person who gives the recommendation. We can split the $2000.00!
I can't complain.
The Army (and maybe also the Navy) has raised the enlistment age to 42.
If you do decide to join the Army let me know first though since they are offering a $2000 referral bonus to the person who gives the recommendation. We can split the $2000.00!
10-01-2008, 09:45 AM
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 498
Well as an example. I just took another job 4 months ago and it was a $25K increase here in Texas. That put me real close to my 100K goal with benefits. My house which is 1600 ft2 sold in 3 weeks of sell by owner. I got 45k more then I paid for it and the appraiser just left and told me that I could have gotten another 15k for it easy if I had wanted to. I just signed a contract for a 15 year old home in N. Houston with 3000 ft2 and little more then 1/4 acre of land for 155K. It was just renovated and it looks brand new with a swimming pool in the back yard. I am telling you that South Texas is the land of plenty and has been so for decades now. BTW you need to tell you wifes family to pack their bags and move with you. I am sorry and I know I am going to offend but California in general is a dead state run by communist symps and anyone that choses to live in that dangerous climate needs to have their head examined and their mustang taken away. JMO. LOL
10-01-2008, 09:51 AM
#19
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: CA
Posts: 319
Nice one Fordication. Ya CA is a pricey place to live in and in order to feel like your earning 100k/year you really need to be bringing in like $150k/year. Make $100k/year in Texas and you'll feel rich.
California has our earthquakes, Texas has the hurricanes....choose your evil.
California has our earthquakes, Texas has the hurricanes....choose your evil.
10-01-2008, 10:03 AM
#20
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Detroit; where the weak are killed and eaten.
Posts: 2,553
Yeah MI is dire. Our Governor is Canadian Trash (no offense to our canadian counterparts here, its that she is trash, not canada...) so she does things that benefit Ontario but hurt MI citizens.
Shes a fool. I wont even begin to talk about how she has hurt the state, but you're right on the money about taxes. she has driven away businesses that were here, and prevented new ones from coming in, because their taxes are outrageous. no one wants to bring work here... that on top of people buying hondas and toyotas and all the big three being located here, i mean christ, ford closed down one of their biggest plants a year or so ago, in wixom where they made the gt, crown vic, marauder, town car.... just closed it. its a huge gaping empty factory now about 5 mins from my place. its really sad.
our governor, the great Jennifer Granholm (I call her Jenny From The Block) last year sold off our road salt in like january because we had had a relatively easy winter. she thought we could make some money selling our road salt dirt cheap to ontario. a month later, we got 3 blizzards in 2 weeks, and steady snowfall through april. we had to buy road salt from like idaho or iowa or something for 3 TIMES the price we sold it to ontario for... all out of tax payers pockets. shes a fool.
homes are dirt cheap... but no one can afford to buy them. all the people taking buyouts from the big three are trying to move out of statre and cant really, because no one will buy their house.
i have no problem moving to texas, and the wife is all for moving out of state once i am done with my schooling, ill get a job and she can finish college somewhere else. this state is terrible.
Shes a fool. I wont even begin to talk about how she has hurt the state, but you're right on the money about taxes. she has driven away businesses that were here, and prevented new ones from coming in, because their taxes are outrageous. no one wants to bring work here... that on top of people buying hondas and toyotas and all the big three being located here, i mean christ, ford closed down one of their biggest plants a year or so ago, in wixom where they made the gt, crown vic, marauder, town car.... just closed it. its a huge gaping empty factory now about 5 mins from my place. its really sad.
our governor, the great Jennifer Granholm (I call her Jenny From The Block) last year sold off our road salt in like january because we had had a relatively easy winter. she thought we could make some money selling our road salt dirt cheap to ontario. a month later, we got 3 blizzards in 2 weeks, and steady snowfall through april. we had to buy road salt from like idaho or iowa or something for 3 TIMES the price we sold it to ontario for... all out of tax payers pockets. shes a fool.
homes are dirt cheap... but no one can afford to buy them. all the people taking buyouts from the big three are trying to move out of statre and cant really, because no one will buy their house.
i have no problem moving to texas, and the wife is all for moving out of state once i am done with my schooling, ill get a job and she can finish college somewhere else. this state is terrible.