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From: rm on 20 May 2007 15:27 ~kurt <actinouranium(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > Guy Macon <http> wrote: >> >> Takes me 30 to 90 minutes to go 19.1 miles to my current jobsite. > > Right now I'm pushing 10 minutes for my commute. The thing being, > even as expensive as it is in this part of Maryland, I could still > find a house I could afford that was close to work. Working in > the LA area - well - I've been looking at the real estate ads, and > I could get a house in my price range far far from work.... But the difference between you and The Phat Phuck is that you don't take the bus. >> Feel free to throw the scraps (jobs in LA that you don't want) to >> me if they involve electronics engineering. Resume at >> guymacon.com > Nope - aerospace. A rocket scientist? Or are you a security guard at an aerospace firm? Do you get to carry a gun? A .22? cordially, as always, rm
From: Floyd L. Davidson on 20 May 2007 21:11 Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote: >~kurt wrote: > >>Hmm, CA - there is a killer job waiting for me in LA, but the cost of living >>is so high, and I imagine I'll be looking at a long commute to work in >>the morning (which I have no patience for), I don't think I'm going to >>consider it. Plus, one of my guns is illegal in that state.... > >Takes me 30 to 90 minutes to go 19.1 miles to my current jobsite. >But the weather is nice when the brushfires aren't too smoky... >Maybe I should house-swap with Floyd for a month. It would Not a chance. I visit Outside on occasion... such as a funeral. Otherwise I am able to *totally* avoid it. >probably make both of us appreciate where we live eve more >than we do now! :) I used to visit every ten years or so. The appreciation level for where I live got so high, I don't need a booster any more! >Feel free to throw the scraps (jobs in LA that you don't want) >to me if they involve electronics engineering. Resume at guymacon.com -- Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson> Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd(a)apaflo.com
From: ANC on 20 May 2007 23:49 In article <qF04i.17351$3P3.8939(a)newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>, ~kurt <actinouranium(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > Working in the LA area - well - I've > been looking at the real estate ads, and I could get a house in my price range > far far from work.... > Probably in Barstow! Anyone who would trade Maryland for Southern California, is nuts! Do yourself a favor. Visit the area first... see the pollution, the crime, and the insane traffic and you will run like hell back to MD. And if you HAVE to come here, rent don't buy. It's getting cheaper to buy each day... and six months from now it will be 'foreclosure city' in CA. I don't know where in MD you are but anywhere there has to be better than anywhere here. YMMV. Al
From: rm on 21 May 2007 03:00 ANC <acanton.take-out(a)adams-blake.no_spamxxx.com> wrote: > Probably in Barstow! > > Anyone who would trade Maryland for Southern California, is nuts! Do > yourself a favor. Visit the area first... see the pollution, the crime, > and the insane traffic and you will run like hell back to MD. And if you > HAVE to come here, rent don't buy. It's getting cheaper to buy each > day... and six months from now it will be 'foreclosure city' in CA. > > I don't know where in MD you are but anywhere there has to be better > than anywhere here. > > YMMV. But are there any polar bears in MD? cordially, as always, rm
From: Melissa on 21 May 2007 03:57
~kurt <actinouranium(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > Guy Macon <http> wrote: >> >> Takes me 30 to 90 minutes to go 19.1 miles to my current jobsite. > > Right now I'm pushing 10 minutes for my commute. The thing being, even as > expensive as it is in this part of Maryland, I could still find a house > I could afford that was close to work. Working in the LA area - well - I've > been looking at the real estate ads, and I could get a house in my price range > far far from work.... > It really is all a matter of where in CA you chose to live. I have a 5 minute commute (plus a 10 min walk from where they place the parking lots). I also found a house I could afford with a regular fixed rate mortgage on a starting professor's salary. Now, LA proper can be nasty, but you can find some okay areas within a 60-90 mile radius of it. Check what area exactly the job is in, since they often advertise "LA area" for quite a large geographic region. Some folks (particularly marketting people) even consider where I live to be the "LA area" even though a few rather large mountains seperate us. I have actually known a few people who work in LA that live around here, but then we're getting into the nasty commute time issue. It takes a good 90 minutes just to enter the LA basin from here, assuming that the road is open (closes for snow during the winter). |