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They would have a significantly lower cost of living. So they should be able to save much more.
by cglace 9y ago
They would have a significantly lower cost of living. So they should be able to save much more.
- dclowd9901 9y agoLower cost of living _and_ lower quality of life. People, believe it or not, are actually weighing that in their job hunting equation these days.
- SwellJoe 9y agoAlso, their likelihood of dying young is among the highest in the developed world, so they may not need to save at all! What a deal.
- cglace 9y agoI never said it was a good deal. Just that cost of living is lower. No need to snark.
- SwellJoe 9y agoMy snark is directed upstream, at the folks who believe paying $18/hour for one of the most deadly jobs in the country is reasonable while also having the gall to complain about not being able to hire enough people to do it. You were just in the line of fire; it wasn't intentional.
- antisthenes 9y agoOregon iirc, isn't a particularly cheap state. Even then, you're still making less in absolute terms, which reduces your mobility and long-term ability to move to another state if/when your logging job disappears. At $18/hr, it's hard to argue that any of those risks are built into the compensation. That is approx. ~37,000/yr for the most dangerous job in the country, apparently. If one is inclined towards the trades, it's not hard to see why they would pick something other than logging.
- notadoc 9y agoYou haven't spent much time on the west coast if you think the cost of living anywhere out there is low. If you want low cost of living, you need to move to the midwest or south, or throughout the NE in upstate or western NY.
- cglace 9y agoI used to live in the bay area.
- cowsandmilk 9y agoexcept that not all of California is large cities. The automatic minimum wage increases will occur even in parts of the state with cost of living very similar to rural Oregon.
- notadoc 9y agoCost of living in the rural west is not cheap. The pacific states are uniquely expensive. It's not at all like western NY or upstate NY, or the midwest, or the south, where everything is dirt cheap, and gets very cheap in rural areas.