What I dislike about Florida so far !!! (Tampa, Orlando: closing, wage)

[Spring Hillian]

I stand corrected. 5% was the firmer STATE income tax.




Joliet has no income tax only a sales tax that can very by zip code. So you are wrong on that fact.[/quote]

[Ken E]

Originally Posted by BucFan

two gone......





now if we can convince another couple of million northern transplants to return whence they came......

Some people really don't need a whole lot of convincing.

[Vannort54]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

I stand corrected. 5% was the firmer STATE income tax.






Joliet has no income tax only a sales tax that can very by zip code. So you are wrong on that fact.

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The state tax use to be 5% now it's 3.75% recheck your facts again.

[Spring Hillian]

The state tax use to be 5% now it's 3.75% recheck your facts again.[/quote]

re-read my pos. I said 5 was the previous rate.

[Spring Hillian]

Originally Posted by Ken E

Some people really don't need a whole lot of convincing.

yeah but the linger for years beforee doiiiing anything about it if ever at all.

I didnt need any convincing when I left the NE.

[cjrudy]

Originally Posted by chaseo1

Not sure why transplants always do this. We keep losing quality residents and for good reasons. Stick your head in the sand all you want but without great paying jobs, infrastructure, development that makes sense we will just turn into another Tri-state minus the millionaires.

Maybe you are actually gaining quality residents? There are good paying jobs for hard working educated people. My wife took a 30% pay increase to move to Tampa for a job.

[MAniacTHW]

Originally Posted by cjrudy

There are good paying jobs for hard working educated people. My wife took a 30% pay increase to move to Tampa for a job.

Lets see the numbers! One example doesn't prove that there are high paying jobs.

[chaseo1]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

I stand corrected. 5% was the firmer STATE income tax.






Joliet has no income tax only a sales tax that can very by zip code. So you are wrong on that fact.

Doesnt even make up for the increase in auto insurance, homeowners insurance, and sales tax. Also factor in the lower average wages here and the quality of schools and public transportation (non-existent) and state tax is not as bad as you make it out to be.

[Spring Hillian]

Originally Posted by chaseo1

Doesnt even make up for the increase in auto insurance, homeowners insurance, and sales tax. Also factor in the lower average wages here and the quality of schools and public transportation (non-existent) and state tax is not as bad as you make it out to be.

I dont know why everybody complains about car ins. I pay just under $90 a month for 2 cars. Friends here pay about the same, more if they carry comp & coll but not much. My HOI is <$1100 a year. Sales tax here 7.0. IL, for instance 8.75. Public transportation certainly does exisit. HART in Hillsborough, The Bus in Hernando, LYNX in Orlando, Pasco has a system too. Nothing wrong with the schools, sans some of them that are loaded with kids whoi cant spell their lat name. Read this and bring yourself up to date - http://www.tampabay.com/news/educati...ing-of/2212959

Ive never had a problem earning a decent wage here., Neither has any of my neighbors, friends around the state and locally. If you flip burgers here for $8 an hour you will get $8 an hour flipping them in most states. If you know nothing you get paid peanuts. If you have skills, knowledge and experience you get paid well.

You beat the same old horse like all the other malcontents with their outdated, incorrect and very misleading information. How many screen names have you used because I can go back in the threads and find many posts from people who stopped posting and they are virtually verbatim. Its always a new member also.

Do you live in FL?? If so WHY?

[DUNNDFRNT]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

I dont know why everybody complains about car ins. I pay just under $90 a month for 2 cars. Friends here pay about the same, more if they carry comp & coll but not much. My HOI is <$1100 a year. Sales tax here 7.0. IL, for instance 8.75. Public transportation certainly does exisit. HART in Hillsborough, The Bus in Hernando, LYNX in Orlando, Pasco has a system too. Nothing wrong with the schools, sans some of them that are loaded with kids whoi cant spell their lat name. Read this and bring yourself up to date - Florida drops to No. 28 in national ranking of public school systems | Tampa Bay Times

Ive never had a problem earning a decent wage here., Neither has any of my neighbors, friends around the state and locally. If you flip burgers here for $8 an hour you will get $8 an hour flipping them in most states. If you know nothing you get paid peanuts. If you have skills, knowledge and experience you get paid well.

You beat the same old horse like all the other malcontents with their outdated, incorrect and very misleading information. How many screen names have you used because I can go back in the threads and find many posts from people who stopped posting and they are virtually verbatim. Its always a new member also.

Do you live in FL?? If so WHY?

You live in a rural area. I dont know how many commute from SH to Tampa, all that I know that is really far and that insurance rates are set by zip code. I came from Northern NJ which historically has some of the highest Real Estate taxes and insurance rates, I pay more in Tampa on car/house insurance to be fair in NJ USAA covered my house and car plus an umbrella insurance here i had to break it up so maybe there were some cost savings lost in the bundle.
I do agree that if you are well prepared and in demand you will be ok, but that's true for every city in the nation. Perhaps this has to do with you being retired or out of the workforce for a while, but the way people advance and make more money in the 21st century is by hopping employers its really hard to do here of course I can only speak of the industries I am familiar with but in NYC I had dozens of companies that I could move to so if a position opened up in my next level I could jump there, in Tampa I have to wait for people to retire or create new positions so its a drag. I will say this when I talk to my NYC contemporaries they work a lot more than me, I am well compensated even on a national scale I am able to flex my schedule, go to school functions, coach my kids teams things that were impossible to do in NYC unless i took days off.