Gee, you would think with gay marriage, people would be flocking to this mecca of family values.
Heh, I live in Arkansas and have a comfortable house with a nice sized yard in a reasonably nice, young professional/older blue collar neighborhood.
From what I can tell, to move to somewhere like Massachusetts or New York, I might could double my salary, but it would cost 3 or 4 times as much to live there in a tiny apartment. I'd love to have that access to Broadway shows or the Boston Symphony, but at that rate, I can wait for the traveling Broadway productions or take a vacation up there every couple of years.
That is probably a lot of it. You can live pretty well down here for MUCH less money. It's not as sexy, but are the headaches that go with the sexy locations worth it?
My salary would be about 30% higher in Mass. My 200,000 dollar house would cost a million or more with its ten acres of land, if I was very lucky. I would have to leave my rifles and pistols in Texas. I could not have a rifle range in my back yard. Kennedy and the witch would be my Senators and the Barney Franks would be representative.
I will stay in Texas!!!!