A moment of silence...

From: James L. Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Tue May 30 01:02:28 2000

We have smog checks in Dallas, but I live in a small town (12k pop. I
commute 25 minutes to downtown and just built a 3500 ft2 house on a lake
shore last year for $225k. Salaries are a bit lower here. I made $82k as
the CTO for a small vertical market VAR last year. I might be able to
pull more money in the SV but I went out and looked around a few years
ago when I was between marriages and decided it was too crowded even
then.

James

Chris Kennedy wrote:
>
> "Vintage Computer GAWD!" wrote:
>
> > Workers will start to realize spending 3-5 hours (or more!) a day in
> > traffic just doesn't make sense anymore at ANY salary and will move
> > somewhere else to find work.
>
> Same income level, but
> the air is clean (hell, we don't even have biennial smog checks) and
> an eighteen-month-old, 2400 sq ft home on a little more than an acre
> of dirt cost less than $200K.
>
> My staff is now geographically disperse; I let them live and work
> anywhere they please as long as they can get connectivity -- if
> I'm going to live in the middle of a national forest the least I can do
> is extend the same flexibility to my staff.
Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 01:02:28 BST