# Mark DeSantis **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mark-desantis/193174 **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [October 21, 2007, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mark-desantis/193174 "2007-10-21T09:50:05Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck) #### Post date: [October 23, 2007, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mark-desantis/193174/7 "2007-10-23T06:55:03Z")
> [@My luck never quits \*rant\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-luck-never-quits-rant/33129/17): > > None of them can solve it directly…Pittsburgh technology employers should wake up and start paying people the way they should be paid for tech jobs. It’s a proven fact that the place ranks low on average salary versus the rest of the nation. There’s the real problem, people wouldn’t go other places that have better pay, better road systems, etc. if the salary was right for tech jobs, period! Don’t give me that COL is lower in Shitsburgh BS. Pay up, suckas! have you checked out the cost of living here compared to other cities. 80 grand here is like 140K in other places. Ask TJ how the house prices and salaries are in Cali. I am not saying I wouldn’t like more money, but everything is lower here, it all evens out. You may not want to hear that argument, but it’s the truth. I had an offer for 20 grand more than what I make now in virginia and I would have been losing out bigtime if I took it. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mark-desantis/193174)._