Posted on 11/08/2009 10:57:10 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Can you believe my son just gave up a job offer in Texas to be the future CEO of a company and get the heck out of California because the cost of their health care plan is too expensive? I am almost sick over his decision making skills and could cry. I have no idea what he is thinking.
Unfortunately he got out of the Marines and stayed in California, married and has three kids. They live in a two-bedroom apartment. He graduated with his MBA and I found him a job in Texas where we live. The flew him in to interview him. He has a chance at home ownership and a great life and is throwing it away to stay in that apartment because he would have to pay a few hundred dollars a week more in health insurance. Forget the fact that there is no state income tax here and he would get an immediate raise there, plus the cost of living is so much lower. Just goes to show you what a California college education does for a person. That is why this country is so screwed up.
When thinking about how they reelect this scum, consider the definition of insanity: Doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
What a coincidence. So has America's. But fear not as we are well on the to Marxist multicultural utopia.
This is why Pot and other drugs should not be legal.
You are probably right about the professor kook because he has mentioned them over and over and talks about the companies they have run, etc. I almost want to laugh when they are comparing the cost of medical insurance. For a business school MBA Pepperdine grad you would think he would know what happened Saturday Night!
I was incorrect about what he was paying for medical insurance — it’s not every week, every two weeks. Still, for what he is paying in rent for a two bedroom apartment he could have a three for four bedroom house here in Texas. I am so angry that I don’t think I will even be able to talk to him. Those poor kids. It’s a shame.
Oh, his company hasn’t been able to give him a raise in several years. What a dope I have raised!
True (re Austin).
True (re Austin). But remember, even most Austin libs are to the right of Cali libs.
Being a native Californian of some 50 + years I remember when we were truly the golden state. What I see now is a doomed state. The only remaining walls holding the state together are the trapped upper middle class workers who have less than 10 years to retirement and do not want to take any chances of losing that retirement. That being said, there are thousands retiring everyday and leaving the state and taking with them a life time of wealth. Since only half of the state’s citizens pay taxes; every tax payer who leaves the state increases the burden on the remaining, who are already making plans to leave once they retire.
CA salaries are very high compared to the rest of the country, for precisely this reason. If you are disciplined enough to minimize your living expenses and fortunate enough to keep a job, you can save up a nice little nest egg to take with you when you leave.
Of course most CA professionals wind up blowing the extra money on overpriced homes, luxury cars, and entertainment.
Describes me to a “T”, except I am middle class NOT upper middle class. Otherwise — to a “T”. I will be retiring to Virginia in just about 10 years and if my retirement did not depend on me being here, then I would not be.
I agree
As goes California, so goes Oregon...
“CA salaries are very high compared to the rest of the country, for precisely this reason. If you are disciplined enough to minimize your living expenses and fortunate enough to keep a job, you can save up a nice little nest egg to take with you when you leave.”
It was too bad the salary they were offering here was the same as he was making there. Mathematically it still doesn’t make sense.
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