Low Wages (Tampa, Brandon, Spring Hill: loans, house, unemployment rate)

[Happiness-is-close]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

Exactly.

Tampa has worse wages and higher cost of living than Pittsburgh.

[Spring Hillian]

Originally Posted by Happiness-is-close

Tampa has worse wages and higher cost of living than Pittsburgh.

I guess that is why I see so many people flocking to Pittsburgh.

[Happiness-is-close]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

I guess that is why I see so many people flocking to Pittsburgh.

People move to Florida for the weather.

[Spring Hillian]

Weather doesn't pay your bills.

[Happiness-is-close]

Nope. Hence the cost of living struggle millions of Floridians are experiencing.

[Spring Hillian]

yeah....... all those millions of down and out They should have stayed where they were.

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

yeah....... all those millions of down and out They should have stayed where they were.

I know, ^^ right?

[Spring Hillian]

Originally Posted by gypsychic

I know, ^^ right?

Of course. Who, in their right mind, would walk away from careers or just good well paying jobs, sell their houses and relocate to a place where they are going to earn $10 an hour and live in a $300,000 house. Certainly the weather is not the only factor in play,

[Trigger-f]

Originally Posted by Happiness-is-close

Because they are two of the most important cities on Earth? It is no wonder their pay and cost of living situations are dramatically different compared to an average city like Tampa. Comparing Tampa to places of similar size and stature would give better comparisons. Cities like Minneapolis, Baltimore, Denver, Pittsburgh, etc are more in Tampa's league.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ordable-again/

""In 2000, the median home value in Northwest D.C. was $136,200, or $150 per square foot. Today it’s more than triple that: $484,000, or $533 per square foot.

Renting in the District has become prohibitively costly for anyone not working a white-collar job, a phenomenon mirrored in New York, San Francisco, Oakland and Seattle. A District household now needs to make $119,000 annually to comfortably afford a two-bedroom apartment, according to a recent study.

Those costs have limited the housing options available to people at nearly every income level in the city. “Affordable housing” in Washington is no longer a poor people’s issue. It is a middle-class issue, a senior citizen issue, a young-worker issue and a family issue.""

Do you think the people above who can't afford to live in such cities care if they are the most important places in the world?

[Happiness-is-close]

Originally Posted by Trigger-f

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ordable-again/

""In 2000, the median home value in Northwest D.C. was $136,200, or $150 per square foot. Today it’s more than triple that: $484,000, or $533 per square foot.

Renting in the District has become prohibitively costly for anyone not working a white-collar job, a phenomenon mirrored in New York, San Francisco, Oakland and Seattle. A District household now needs to make $119,000 annually to comfortably afford a two-bedroom apartment, according to a recent study.

Those costs have limited the housing options available to people at nearly every income level in the city. “Affordable housing” in Washington is no longer a poor people’s issue. It is a middle-class issue, a senior citizen issue, a young-worker issue and a family issue.""

Do you think the people above who can't afford to live in such cities care if they are the most important places in the world?

What point are you trying to make?