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Article #432Re: California, where your dollar don't go far. . .
From: The Sanity Inspector
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:40
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:40
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Like wow, Scooby, look what geoffm@u1.netgate.net (Geoff Miller) just wrote! >Where do people get this idea that they have to live in the >same municipality where they work? I remember the time, >about a decade ago, when I told someone that I worked in >Menlo Park and lived in Mountain View -- which was all of >a ten- to fifteen- minute run down the freeway, depending >on traffic. He gave me a confused look and asked, >"Wull...how come you don't live in Menlo Park, where your >job is?" As though I was somehow obligated to go through >the hassle of moving, and to a place I could barely have >afforded to live in, just to be in the same ZIP code as >my workplace! Here in Atlanta, we err the other way: commuting from the neighboring time-zone to downtown. Until you've gone bumper-to-bumper at 5:30am down a roaring twelve-lane expressway, packed in on all sides with your fellow sleep-deprived, coffee-gulping, newspaper-reading, makeup-applying commuters, you've never gotten the full commute experience! >If someone can find such a job in a reasonably desirable locale >with a lower cost of living, more power to them -- but then, the >wages would undoubtedly be lower in proportion. In Atlanta, this is indeed true--though "proportion" is the key word. -- bruce The dignified don't even enter in the game. --The Jam
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,1f325cba173a497e X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,1f325cba173a497e X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 10a89e,1f325cba173a497e X-Google-Attributes: gid10a89e,public X-Google-Thread: fb9af,1f325cba173a497e X-Google-Attributes: gidfb9af,public X-Google-Thread: 111a85,1f325cba173a497e X-Google-Attributes: gid111a85,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-11 07:38:22 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-pas-nf2!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: synapsid@hotmail.com (The Sanity Inspector) Newsgroups: talk.rumors,or.politics,atl.general,ca.politics,sac.general Subject: Re: California, where your dollar don't go far. . . Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:40:30 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3f0ecb27.529989@news.mindspring.com> References: <30Uii3i3jguj388939393@kech.net> <AweTt32783hHHSAQy727@kech.net> <fYiPa.65389$JY1.17616@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <bel4in$kpb@u1.netgate.net> Reply-To: synapsidSPAMLESS@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.f4.70.7e X-Server-Date: 11 Jul 2003 14:38:21 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243