[geeks] [barf-bag required] $13 an hour for Unix geeks, spit...

[Nadine Miller]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:18:53AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> And I suspect the cost of living in Houston is about 2 -2.5 times 
>>> what it
>>> is in Mechanicsburg, PA.
>>
>> Houston:  2-bedroom apartments can be had for $795-895.  You can get a 
>> nice
>> house for between $150-200K.
> 
> Wow!  Two bedroom apartments in a decent neighborhood in *Poughkeepsie* 
> (let alone NYC) are $1100+.  For $200K, your house will be about to 
> collapse under its own weight.

Houston hasn't imploded under the weight of tech expansion.  Most of 
Houston's "boom" happened during the oil boom in the 70's, and it's 
grown been slow and steady since then.  Hence, housing prices are still 
reasonable.

Well, and you know, Texas is just "bigger", so the growth of the city 
outwards is not so difficult. It's not going to bump into another large 
city until Dallas in the north, and Austin/San Antonio to the 
west/northwest.  It's less dense, but more sprawled, which causes 
commute headaches, but keeps RE prices down.

=Nadine=