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Originally Posted by NewYorkBorn
South Carolina is great for New Yorkers as long as we bring some NY money with us....or are retired.....otherwise we end up living like the vast majority of SC residents.....on low wage jobs!!
Willing to bet $$ that if anyone from NY claims that they are not in a rush to go back...it is either because 1) they sold a home in NY for a ridiculous amount of money which left them with plenty of $$ in the bank or 2) they are retired with a nice NY retirement check....therefore not hurting for money. Let those circumstances change and they find themselves in SC looking for a decent paying job {decent by a New Yorkers perspective at least} and watch how fast they will pack up and go home.
Come on now how could anyone say they don't miss this kind of action! :-)
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Both my wife and I make more money here, although with the economy being the way it is we've been on pins and needles for a year and a half. Things are a little better, now.
I'll say this; if it came down to it, I'd take a temporary lower-wage job to keep paying bills, rather than move back to NY to support:
A) Welfarites and their obscene welfare/Medicaid benefits.
B) NY's corporate welfare schemes.
C) NY's public employees' unions/NYS retirees.
We know folks whom have moved back to Michigan
and western PA. I don't know what the big attraction is in Warren, MI, but to each their own.
My saving grace is I have something to fall back on that pays at least $20/hr., around here, if I lose my engineering job. Also, we don't pay $7K/yr. in combined school, county, etc., property taxes per year, so we've been able to save some money, here. All 3 tax years we've lived here we've gotten money back on our state income taxes. Try that in the Soviet Socialist Counties of the People's Democratic Republic of New York.
NYS plain sucks. Moving back to there is out of the question.
I wouldn't change a thing about Greenville.
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