ive heard ppl who want to get a house, settle down, and start a family find its difficult. with average house at 1/2 million, and the taxes to go with that, its not easy. either have to move inland or out of state. obviously if your young and don't care about renting, but at some point you have to consider your future.

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Originally posted by Caela hah i'm qualified [unofficially] in lots of other things. i have a good talent and it's called bs'ing. although i think i would have some trouble passing myself off as a construction worker or something of the like

well we have LOTS of office jobs. for instance we have engineering firms, tech firms, automakers, contruction, medical and dental. and we have LOTS of all of those firms. the automakers we have here are honda, ford, daimler-chrysler, mazda, hyndai, and kia. and im talking OFFICE jobs for those companies. we have engineering firms in ALL fields. in the tech industry we have companies such as broadcom, blizzard, samsung, gateway and a few others too that i cant remember. we have all the cell phone providers down here (verizon, nextel, sprint, tmobile, etc). LOTS of contruction. what else do you want? i mean seriously. we have EVERYTHING you can imagine here.

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel we have EVERYTHING you can imagine here.

...except affordable rent

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Originally posted by igottaknow ive heard ppl who want to get a house, settle down, and start a family find its difficult. with average house at 1/2 million, and the taxes to go with that, its not easy. either have to move inland or out of state. obviously if you young and don't care about renting, but at some point you have to consider your future.

while i dont disagree that buying a house is very expensive, (average home price in orange county alone is 650k but thats in the whole county. if you were to break it up the way they should it would be north county is average of 500k and south county averages 900k.) you also make much more in general. especially in good professional positions. also taxes arent that high. property tax is at 1.5% and sales tax is at 7.75%.

If I were you I would beat that chick up. Plus how old are you??? Odds are you could find a desk job and make more money, and its better.

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Originally posted by Caela ...except affordable rent

this is why i said cost of living is relative. your 40k a year job in burlington is 2-2.5x the wage here. so your house thats 200k in burlington is of course 800k..but you make 110k a year. whats the big deal?

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel property tax is at 1.5%

that like $8,000 yr in property tax

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Originally posted by igottaknow that like $8,000 yr in property tax

ok but whats property tax rate where you are? i know in a lot of states its like 8% or 9%. which would rather have? lower percentage and higher worth or lower worth and higher rate? either way its a wash.

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Originally posted by M_Tektronik If I were you I would beat that chick up. Plus how old are you??? Odds are you could find a desk job and make more money, and its better.

20 and yeah i could totally kick her contemptuous ass but i'll be the bigger person

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel ok but whats property tax rate where you are? i know in a lot of states its like 8% or 9%. which would rather have? lower percentage and higher worth or lower worth and higher rate? either way its a wash.

i think thats the mill rate which isn't the same as percent. i believe a mill rate of 8 = 0.8%

edit: i just looked up connecticut its high 2-4% so you're right it evens out.

ok i'm moving to San Diego

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel this is why i said cost of living is relative. your 40k a year job in burlington is 2-2.5x the wage here. so your house thats 200k in burlington is of course 800k..but you make 110k a year. whats the big deal?

so how much do you make a year?

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Originally posted by Caela 20 and yeah i could totally kick her contemptuous ass but i'll be the bigger person

or you could do what we all want, and challenge her to a bra & panties duel inside a swimming pool filled with jelly & custard.