Southwest Actually Gave Me Peanuts
I’m back from my “Splorat’ry Spedition”, and even correcting for the irrational exuberance about moving out of town just in time to miss being fiscally raped by BGE, I must say I like what I saw. You can go here to see part of what I saw.
So I’ve got temporary lodgings up in the Hill Country–a town called Boerne (berr-nee) NNW of the city proper. It’s about 20+ acres of awesome land, and I hope to spend some q.t. exploring its crannies (see pictures) with my camera and headlamp.
Not much else to say other than I’m still recovering from the beer and the sun, but the food was excellent and–goddamn all clichés to hell–the people were nice. Not make you want to puke nice, like Wisconsin farmers, but just not assclowns nice. Hard to put a finer point on that one; i.e., it's conceptual.
And I got a line on a Cadillac, too.
5 Missives So Far
01 tfg said on Tue Mar 21 6:35:43 EST
At least they weren't replace your grits with Ruphenol and sell you to Mexican white slavers nice. That's the worst.
02 tfg said on Tue Mar 21 6:38:39 EST
I forgot to ask. How does the cost of living in TX compare to MD? Taxes, wages, real estate, and what not...
03 josh said on Tue Mar 21 9:41:50 EST
The cost of living is significantly less in Texas. Here's a chart I was given a few months back to illustrate the point, and there's no personal income tax. My wages are *ahem* based on the *ahem* GS scale, so that's sorta out of my purview for the moment. The real estate within the metropolitan area seems to be in line with the national median, though some of the houses in the outlying areas are really a steal; to wit, Lots of potential equity growth. The guy who I'll be staying with for a stretch appraised his house for 250K in 2003, and figures it to be worth around 400K on the market now -- but he has river frontage, which is in high demand.
And there are hot women everywhere.
04 tfg said on Tue Mar 21 22:20:52 EST
No personal income tax? Where does MD fall on that chart? 130 in all categories?
I'm a curious kind of bastard tonight, no?
05 josh said on Tue Mar 21 23:11:16 EST
Twice as curious as normal, it would seem (nyuk nyuk). And to be honest, I didn't do a straight up and down comparison with MD -- I'd pretty much decided to move within minutes of the offer. Twelve years here, well... it's been fun.
Ever forward, I always say.
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