What would you need to make to live in another city?

[lewdog]

Found this to be pretty awesome to look at. Take your current salary where you live and see what you would need to make to live the same way in a different city.

http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/c...ng/?iid=F_Jump

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by loochy

I recently read about cheap housing in Vegas. Also, I saw a House Hunters episode about Vegas and the prices were much more reasonable than I expected.

Apparently when houses here sit empty you get a few spiders and weather related worries.

There you get scorpion infestations and super **** you roaches that congregate around water sources.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Apparently when houses here sit empty you get a few spiders and weather related worries.

There you get scorpion infestations and super **** you roaches that congregate around water sources.

It sounds like they have some bad roaches.

[MagicHef]

I moved from CO to TX, and I keep hearing how much cheaper it is... but I'm not really convinced.

For example, take buying a house. The house prices are way lower down here, but the property taxes are way higher. So, for a similar house in both places, the total price would be lower here, but the monthly mortgage + taxes payment is the same. However, once the house is paid off, I'm left with an asset that is worth significantly less, while having paid the same amount. Also, I'm still stuck paying the higher taxes.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by MagicHef

I moved from CO to TX, and I keep hearing how much cheaper it is... but I'm not really convinced.

For example, take buying a house. The house prices are way lower down here, but the property taxes are way higher. So, for a similar house in both places, the total price would be lower here, but the monthly mortgage + taxes payment is the same. However, once the house is paid off, I'm left with an asset that is worth significantly less, while having paid the same amount. Also, I'm still stuck paying the higher taxes.

Where are you at? The property taxes vary a lot. For example, in the Fort Worth city limits the taxes are probably 30% higher than if you move to the county west of the city.

[MagicHef]

Originally Posted by loochy

Where are you at? The property taxes vary a lot. For example, in the Fort Worth city limits the taxes are probably 30% higher than if you move to the county west of the city.

Houston

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by sd4chiefs

My Son lives in Las Vegas and started looking into buying a house a few months ago. I talked to him this weekend and he said that in the last month houses that were setting on the market for months are now selling in just days.

Perhaps I underestimated the required recovery time by a decade or two.