I WANT SUMMMER BACK!!
im not sure how i feel on this subject these days, i like cool days, i like warm days i hate fucking hot days and hate fucking cold days. especially hate cold rainy days
I WANT SUMMMER BACK!!
ur goin to florida:dunno:
i know and cant wait haha :bigthumb: ill send u a post card
another awesome day down here - I guess I never realized Western PA was so different!
Yeah, sure, rub it in…
I do plan on moving south. I like snow as much as anyone, but I don’t like getting up to cold, wet weather on a daily basis. I like driving in snow drifts, and skiing, but I don’t like sitting in traffic. It’s easy to take vacations to snowy places. I’m with Quik, I like moderate temps.
It’s amazing how driving 4 hours completely changes thing. In CT and here in MD we got the sun almost on a daily basis and rain was few and far between. Of course we get more rain from hurricanes being closer to the coast, but I’ll still take it.
I still can’t get over how many people in Pittsburgh thought I was moving to worse weather when I went to CT and how it was SOOO much better 
you live in pittsburgh, a city with a ridiculously low cost of living and a generally benign populace. deal with some shitty weather.
it could be worse. detroit has shittier weather. and it’s detroit.
Ok, I agree about Detroit. But for the record, the Pgh COL is low, but it’s not like you can buy sweet stuff here, that you can’t buy elsewhere. I mean houses are cheaper, but that’s the only major item that is different.
If you live in LA, and your $80,000 salary is equivalent to $35,000 here, airfare and hotels still cost the same, so that means living/working in an area with a lower COL forces us to take shittier vacations, haha. Not to mention, car prices don’t change much across the country and when they do, you can just buy it somewhere else and take it home.
That was kind of long, but the low pgh COL isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be.
think smaller.
groceries. gasoline. taxes. etc…
my apartment here is $600/month. comparable apartments in san diego are $1500-2000/month. you spend a lot of money for nice weather.
Then why are per diem rates different across the country, which cover hotel & food? But yeah, housing is definitely the big difference. And tax structure.
Taxes are worse here than a lot of places, TX and FL don’t even have state income tax.
Gas is way more in California, but it’s a lot more stable throughout the rest of the country.
I agree on rent/housing, but on vacations and the car issue…that actually works out worse for us. A brand new ZO6 doesn’t cost 2-3x as much out there like rent does, but the pay sure is better.
I didn’t mean all cities are the same. I meant if a person from Pgh and a person from LA visit the same city, they will pay the same for a hotel. It’s just a larger % of the Pgh person’s pay. Airfare changes too, but it’s usually pretty flat, sometimes even better flying out of the largest cities.
My point was just that a big vacation or a nice car is a larger chunk of your pay when you live in Pgh, and “reap the benefits” of the low cost of living.
but what is your point?? location is moot… a $35,000 and a $95,000 job leads to different personal expendatures… regardless of anything else… the amout of money you make will determine the amonut you spend on cars and vacations without any regard to what someone in LA is making and spending.
You may have to pay state, but you don’t pay property tax or tax on clothes. Every state is going to get our money somehow, it just depends on which way they do it.
heres on go live in either SC or NC and then pay tax on everything you own every year
You’re right, people typically spend what they make, but I meant something different. To do the exact same job will often have different pay in different cities. So one person, could perform the exact same job, but depending on the location, he would earn a different wage. If that person goes to buy a car, the payment will be a larger % of his income if he worked in the lower paying city.
Easy numbers for example purposes.
If you make $2000/month, a $200/month payment is 10% of your earnings.
If you make $2500/month, a payment of $200/month, is only 8% of earnings. Or you could pay $250/month and have the same 10% debt ratio.
Of course you’ll pay more for most things in the other city, but you can have the same job, but drive a nicer car.
Also, if you buy a house in SoCal, the payment is ridic, but when you sell it and move to Pgh, you can afford a sweet-ass place. Sell the average Pgh home, and it would make a nice down payment out there.
There is plenty of property tax in PA. Did you mean there’s no “personal property” tax? Is that the same thing Quik was talking about, when you pay tax every year on your car and other luxuries?
i bet the same people that are cryin about the cold would cheer if they were at a steelers game and a blizzard was comming in. bandwagon weather fans!!!
I meant that in CT I had to pay tax on my car and others had to pay tax on boats, motorcycles on a yearly basis. When I moved to MD i paid that tax when I registered my car in the state a nice whopping $500. ugh. But here and in CT we don’t have a local tax to pay.
that’s not true… my job is the same no matter where… i ask the same hourly amount no matter where i am…
i understand what you are saying, but i’m still not sure what your point is!!!
with this being my 25th year of existance… I am ok with pittsburgh weather