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I am so excited! I just went through a ton of baby clothes finding ones I can part with for a garage sale (and cutting out a whole box worth of clothes from the move) and pricing them. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Health care is EXPENSIVE here (not to mention everything else ). I'm moving to Portland, Oregon, and to cover my family up there will be 1/3 of what it is here (not to mention everything else ).
I am a health care provider and my employers here in So Cal can barely keep their business in the black. Their annual disability insurance premium last year went from $50K to $500K!!
The air quality here is awful. I live in the valley which gets the lion's share of the pollution, but the LA basin ain't no picnic either. Hope you like the color brown: Brown skies, brown trees, brown everything...
All I can say is I hope you're making a boat-load of cash, 'cause that's the only way living the California lifestyle pays off IMHO.
Good luck either way. At least with me leaving and you coming in we are keeping the force in balance.
Hope your move goes smooth.
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Yes Monkey, California is expensive. The folks there don't realize it for some reason, or they figure the weather makes it worth the expense. When I think that we used to have to budget to pay our license and registration for our cars each year...yikes. I remember paying over $400 bucks just for tags on my minivan! And insurance? fuggetabutit! I know Chicago is not el cheapo-land, but it is better than So. Cal.
I'm not really all doom and gloom, KC. Just hadn't thought about living there in quite a while.
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My whole family lives in CA. I love it there. Jeff will have full coverage at work, and our insurance will come directly out of his take-home pay (and it's not too much.) Plus I don't have to go to the doctor for little things; my dad's a doctor and my mom's a nurse.
I grew up with LA smog, but my biggest problem is going to be my allergies. They are much better since moving to a completely different ecosystem, but I'm sure they'll blow right up again once I'm out there. Oh, well, that's what Allavert's for...
And we don't intend to "live the California lifestyle"; we intend to live modestly and frugally in a way that allows us to pay off our debt and save money, which will eventually be possible there, and would not here. Cost of living is something like 4.6% higher in the community we're moving to compared to the one we're in now, but employers out here tend to pay 6.7% less here than there, so we'll be doing better out there!
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). I'm moving to Portland, Oregon, and to cover my family up there will be 1/3 of what it is here (not to mention everything else ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
