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Where the Highest Paying Tech Jobs Are
prostoalex writes "Where would you look for a high-paying tech job? If your answer is Silicon Valley or Research Triangle, Forbes magazine suggests some other destinations. When you take the cost of living and consider the net pay adjusted for that cost, places like Montgomery, Ala., Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Fort Smith, Ark. suddenly seem quite attractive."
Wasn't that article called "Best Places to Live -- If You're a Bible-Thumping Redneck" ?
dat mean us kuntry foke hear in norf carolinuh kneed mo' teechin.
NC graduates less teachers per year than they need, and some of those graduates leave the the state to work. The population in RTP/Raleigh is expanding very rapidly and this is a contributing factor. Sam
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I'm sick of surveys like this that purport to rationalize why we should all be happy to move to west bumfuck for $9/hr. We DON'T WANT to LIVE there. Instead of sending all the jobs to Bangalore why don't tech firms pay people a good enough wage so that they can live somewhere urban or at least at the median cost of living in the US?
What next? A column from Forbes telling us how great it is for IT workers to live in Mexico?
The quality of life than many Americans does not require public transportation. In fact I would be a good number actually see public transportation as a sign of where NOT to live.
Sure, but then you're put in the position of leaching off of me and the rest of the urban dwellers to pay your bills.
I have too much integrity to live my life sponging off of others, but hey, different strokes and all right?
Here's a simple test. Would you be willing to have every single one of your bills, phone, gas, electric, cell phone etc. etc. etc. quadrupled to live where you do?
If so, fine, start paying your own way in the world.
If not, then you are a leach and your existence is entirely dependent upon the welfare provided to you by me and others like me.
How about a little respect for those who pay your bills for you?
I'm even moving further out simply because where I bought has changed so much in 9 years that its no longer the area I desired to live in. Lots of good people are here but the little businesses have creeped down the road to where its no longer "open".
That's fine, but if you're going to move to the middle of nowhere, then you had damn well better pay to have all of the utility lines brought out there rather than expecting *me* to pay for it for you.