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Old 03-04-2008, 07:31 PM
 
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Want to move to Texas from Mn. How are the wages for blue/white collar ? Looking for work & housing around China Springs or Waco (not downtown) suburbs.Lived in NM awhile , is it simalar ? Cant take the winters anymore
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Old 03-04-2008, 09:28 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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I am originally from the Waco area, then ended up moving to MN for 3 years(all the winters we could handle), and are now back in Texas.

Wages for most blue collar work are going to pay less here, but I guess that also depends on what type of work you are talking about. Any type of construction will pay less in Texas.

Housing is generally cheaper here, especially in Waco/China Spring.

I don't think it's similar to NM, but thats just me. Texas is a whole other country
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Old 03-04-2008, 09:33 PM
 
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MN is cold, cold, cold. Texas is hot, hot, hot.

Choose wisely.
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:01 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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NM is different from most of Texas. Eastern NM is a lot like western TX. Once you get to the mountains, it's different. Eastern TX isn't like NM at all, being much more humid.
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Old 03-05-2008, 04:26 AM
 
Location: Somewhere in Texas
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My Texas great-nephew married a girl from Minnesota and I can assure you when they are out of the Navy, they will be moving to MN. They're now in CO so my g-n is getting a taste of the snow to prepare him for his future life in MN.

As much as I despise the heat here, I don't think I could take those long and cold winters either. Both are evil in different ways.
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Old 03-05-2008, 10:05 AM
 
Location: East Texas, with the Clan of the Cave Bear
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A TON more blue collar jobs on the coast with presently $10 billion in industrial infrastructure ivestments ongoing! This is mostly upper coast.
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Old 03-05-2008, 11:13 AM
 
Location: Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
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I don't know how it is in MN but union isn't strong here if that's what you're looking for. Like catman said, West Texas is similar in geography to New Mexico if you want to compare that. But culturally and geographically, parts of Texas are more like the rest of the South especially the further east in Texas you go. I know some northerners and californians say they've had a culture shock to adjust to but you may like it.
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Old 03-05-2008, 11:16 AM
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Location: Ohio
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I lived in Wisconsin before I moved to Texas. The main advantage to summer heat over winter snow is that I've never had to get up before sunrise to shovel heat off of my driveway. I can make the summer heat bearable with air conditioning. Also, the heat of the summer in texas is usually only unbearable for a few hours of the day. The cold of winter up north can last for weeks at a time.

If I was spending this winter in Wisconsin, I think I'd make it my last winter there, too.
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Old 03-05-2008, 04:56 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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LOL, I like that line " I have never had to shovel heat off of my driveway".

I have also never had heat stick my eyelashes together. Nor have I ever had a heat plow push a 3 foot high wall of heat in front of my driveway after I had already shoveled it.

I will take the heat any day over 6 months of winter and snow.
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