From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@gondwanaland.com)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 19:59:20 MDT
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 18:24, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Thanks for the interesting information, James. In Silly-Con
> Valley and surrounding locales it is very difficult for a single
> adult to live on $25k, much less a family of three! Do you or
> does anyone reading this know of a good map of such areas?
Take a map of the US, erase the SF bay area, NYC, perhaps Boston and San
Diego and some tony resort type areas (e.g., Santa Barbara, Naples,
Aspen). Amazing how cheaply one can live in any other metro in any but
the most expensive neighborhoods. More liberally, erase California, the
Northeast and several of the largest remaining metros. You're left with
thousands of options for dirt cheap living. Almost all of the US is an
incredibly cheap place to live. Much of it is now wired.
> Perhaps it is time to reconsider telecommuting. My semi-single
> burn-rate in the valley is around $5K/month but $2100 of that
> goes to the ex and kids. And that is with renting part of a
> house rather than having one of my own.
(Burning ~$2k/month in San Francisco, almost all of that rent, looking
into rural Nevada.)
Mike Linksvayer
http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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