you have to figure in the cost of housing with how much

money people are making.



I know after talking to people who come up from Florida in the same

business I am in that they make half what I make, so its

all relative



so yeah thier house is cheaper, but they make less

Yea well right now we have the highest unemplyment in the state, but for the most part you are correct except that in seattle we hit a boom a few years ago, we housed more .com's the silicone valley and the wages came too, just behind the wages came the increase in the cost of housing, Amy and I bought the condo cause our rent was going up every 6 months, boom 2 years later the .com's dried up, the wages have bottomed because of the volume of qualified people available for a limited number of jobs.



Rent has gone down considerably, but house prices have pretty much just stagnated. Takes longer then normal to sell a place, but you can still get your money back.

Not to mention we have some of the highest taxes in the nation THE highest syntax at 136% and our property taxes rate among the highest.

I have two kegs going all the time, i don't have to find friends they find me LOL j/k

I that's why, it seems to me, that many people take their money from up north and come live down south. Heck, I'd do it!