Short story, is it plausible for a couple(married/no kids) to move to Burlington, Massachusetts for a pair of full time jobs@ $12-14/hr?
So far in looking, "cheap" apartments are $1-1.5k, cost of living is 140% that of the national average.
I also don't want to go into greater detail just yet.
Why on earth would you do that? If you're going to move some place with sub zero temps, average of 50 inches of snowfall and around 2 months of the white stuff, I'd be wanting way more than that. Berk cold weather.
I live in milford mass and I pay 850 with heat and hot water for a 2 bedroom. Framingham is around 1k for 1bedroom no utl not sure about Burlington. Sorry
That is warmer and less snow than where I am now. I still have snow around my place waiting to melt.
Burlington is my best shot at moving up within my current company. Currently I'm stuck in Central NY. Otherwise both my wife and myself will leave the company and move one county over, most likely to Vestal, NY.
Doesn't seem like enough money per hour for that area of the state to me. Dean could speak better than me as he is much closer to that town, but it seems like an expensive part of the state.
That's an expensive area, but there's some cheaper areas if you don't mind a bit of a commute. On the other hand, maybe moving into that area will open more doors (read: higher paid) jobs than central ny..
not if you own any guns, no.
A) Wut stroker said.
B) Can you really survive on that with an apt that expensive? Maybe I'm too used to mo, but I can barely get by on 50K/yr for two people and a rental house at 550/mo. Sure, I get my toys, but damn. It doesn't sound like you're putting yourself in a good situation.
For some cold, hard math.. Let's assume you get 14/hr:
That means (with no overtime): 58,240 gross per year. Which means ~43,600 take home after 25% taxes
An apartment for ~1k = 12000, so 31,600 per year to live on (that's losing ~28% of your take home pay to JUST a place to live, no furniture, etc).
Assuming you spend an additional 20% of your take home (8736) on food, that leaves you ~$22,900 a year for everything else..
That seems low to me, but do-able for a few years if you need to do it to climb up the ladder. It won't be comfortable, but it will be possible..
Possible, yes.
Regrettable, almost certainly.
Why would anyone intentionally move to MA without some overwhelmingly fantastic reason to do so? "I'm marrying a Kennedy/Rockefeller heir" is almost (but not quite) a reason. "They gave me the Bruins" is possibly a good one... $14/hr is not.
Yeah, that area can be expensive. Also seems like a pretty random place to move!
There are much cheaper areas to live in MA, like the area that Mazdax605 and I live in which is on the way-South Shore of Boston. He's a town over from me, but my town is pretty cheap to live in. It's nowhere near Burlington, though.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Why would anyone intentionally move to MA without some overwhelmingly fantastic reason to do so? "I'm marrying a Kennedy/Rockefeller heir" is almost (but not quite) a reason. "They gave me the Bruins" is possibly a good one... $14/hr is not.
It could be a very good strategic move, if there's no other real advancement (skills or money) in central NY for them. Sometimes you have to sacrifice for a year or two for a bigger payoff. But, he hasn't given any details, so your guess is as good as mine :)
Burlington is right off route 3, which means a simple commute from some cheaper towns. I lived in that area (Carlisle) for a while before I moved to the North Shore so I could turn my nose up at South Shore residents.
It was somewhat plausible 10-12 years ago, but not now. Cost of living has skyrocketed since then and the COL in that area is HIGH.
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