Are You in the Best City for Your Job?

[Tex]

Are You in the Best City for Your Job? - Yahoo! News

Click link for full story...There was a snippet that mentioned Oklahoma City and it made me chuckle.

Quote...
"Accepting a lower salary might make financial sense if you were willing to leave an expensive city such as Seattle and settle in, say, Oklahoma City".

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

I work in IT, so I'm going to go with a "HELL NO I'm not in the right city".

But as long as where I work stays in business and I can keep my butt out of the sling (see: not get fired), I'll be just fine.

[OKCMallen]

Every city needs good IT!

I practice oil and gas law, so I'd say I'm in the best city in the country except for Houston and maybe DFW (and who wants to live there?!).

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

Every city needs it, as do most companies...But decent options for IT people are pretty slim around here.

[JWil]

Haha, Seattle to OKC. Why would ANY one want to make that move? Haha.

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

Haha, Seattle to OKC. Why would ANY one want to make that move? Haha.

I somebody "bought" me for a few hundred million, I'd move to a cardboard box in Mexico City if that's where they told me to go

[CuatrodeMayo]

No.

[dismayed]

Haha, Seattle to OKC. Why would ANY one want to make that move? Haha.

Many people who work for large corporations keep their west-coast salary no matter where they move to if their company transfers them. If you take that point and add to it the cost of housing factor, there's really a good selling point there.

If you win a million dollars in the lottery on the west coast, you buy a house. If you win a million dollars in a lottery in Oklahoma, you buy a house, a beach condo, a new Mercedes, a boat, etc. etc. etc. etc. ........

[fsusurfer]

I work in IT, so I'm going to go with a "HELL NO I'm not in the right city".

But as long as where I work stays in business and I can keep my butt out of the sling (see: not get fired), I'll be just fine.

I work in IT as well, and when I took a new job in Florida it paid nearly 50% more than the job I had in OKC was paying. Not to mention paid overtime and much better retirement benefits.

[JerzeeGrlinOKC]

Ha, I used to live in Bordentown! 350K sounds really high for a 2,800 square foot for that area, but they were trying to gentrify it when I lived there (which is why I moved, I couldn't afford my rent)...

Which leads me to say...I took a large pay cut coming here, but I'm still saving way more (car insurance, rent, taxes, etc). Sometimes I feel though that my employer knows this and its keeping them from offering me a raise...grrrr....but its a free market and I can always go elsewhere...

[OKCMallen]

I somebody "bought" me for a few hundred million, I'd move to a cardboard box in Mexico City if that's where they told me to go

Double true.

[jsibelius]

Haha, Seattle to OKC. Why would ANY one want to make that move? Haha.

You laugh, but think about what $50,000 is worth in Seattle vs. what $50,000 is worth here in OKC. Then think about the traffic in Seattle and think about the traffic here. Heck yeah, I'd move here.

I knew someone who moved here just for the weather. She couldn't stand the cold and drizzle - she needed the heat and sun of summer again. And never mind that $50,000 a year paycheck might actually buy a decent house instead of an apartment in some crummy part of town. For her, that was merely a perk. And now she can afford to travel if she feels like she's not getting enough urban culture.