Taxachusetts is my Home

[BrickCop]

Hey Delta your profane Mass. post got deleted. :p chuckle-chuckle

What I like about MA-

Schools, Real Estate values, Hospitals, Good Wages, Sports

What I hate-

WINTER, taxes, PC runs amok,...more later

[Catman]

Hey Brick, on the job right now hooked up to the wireless outside the library! Good thread I'll have to include some key comments tomorrow, or today, what day is this? :confused: :D

[Delta784]

Hey Delta your profane Mass. post got deleted. :p chuckle-chuckle

Yeah, that earned me my second "final warning" from the mods. :rolleyes:

Let me just say that I'd move in a heartbeat, if my wife wasn't so attached to her family, and if I didn't make so much money where I am now.

[Catman]

Delta, love your sig! :D

[Welpe]

If I may...where would you go, Delta?

[Delta784]

If I may...where would you go, Delta?

Any red state would do. :D

[6233108]

Hey Delta your profane Mass. post got deleted. :p chuckle-chuckle

What I like about MA-

Schools, Real Estate values, Hospitals, Good Wages, Sports

What I hate-

WINTER, taxes, PC runs amok,...more later

I'll add one ...cost of living. I would have to make 130K living in MA to live like I do in Ohio making 80K

[code3_K9]

Thats the reason Im leaving this $hit hole... Goin down south where I'll make a measly 40g, but buy a 4 bedroom house with 1/2 acre for 130g...

Plus the 50* winters are always a plus... :D

[BrickCop]

It depends when you bought your house. I bought a great home in a buyers market at a great int rate (4.875). The cost of living is all relative I guess.

6233108-

80K is pretty good. You wouldn't exactly be living in a "van down by the river" making 80K a year in MA. :D

[Catman]

It depends when you bought your house. I bought a great home in a buyers market at a great int rate (4.875). The cost of living is all relative I guess.

6233108-

80K is pretty good. You wouldn't exactly be living in a "van down by the river" making 80K a year in MA. :D

I'm making 80K with no details, hardly any OT and I'm doing pretty well. On yeah, my wife makes 60K+. :( :)

[6233108]

It depends when you bought your house. I bought a great home in a buyers market at a great int rate (4.875). The cost of living is all relative I guess.

6233108-

80K is pretty good. You wouldn't exactly be living in a "van down by the river" making 80K a year in MA. :D

Yeah I'd probably be living in Brockton.....My Grandma lives in Lincoln and I know I could'nt even afford an acre of land there.

[6233108]

I'm making 80K with no details, hardly any OT and I'm doing pretty well. On yeah, my wife makes 60K+. :( :)

To be exact 82K last year as a Sgt. and about 12K in OT. No side jobs as I loath them, bastards cut ya loose quicker than your department/city. Make your head spin.

[Catman]

To be exact 82K last year as a Sgt. and about 12K in OT. No side jobs as I loath them, bastards cut ya loose quicker than your department/city. Make your head spin.

I don't like details either. But, we're up to $40 an hr with a four hr minimum so I may work some this year. If I took all the OT and Details I'd be making well over 100K. I'm not one of those guys that like to work myself to death since I have kids that need time too, etc. Since I pace myself I',m not overextending but it's nice to know I can work more if need be.

[6233108]

I don't like details either. But, we're up to $40 an hr with a four hr minimum so I may work some this year. If I took all the OT and Details I'd be making well over 100K. I'm not one of those guys that like to work myself to death since I have kids that need time too, etc. Since I pace myself I',m not overextending but it's nice to know I can work more if need be.


Were $25 an hr with a four hr. minimum for side jobs.

[Catman]

Were $25 an hr with a four hr. minimum for side jobs.

Eh, it could be worse:( :mad:

[Delta784]

Yeah I'd probably be living in Brockton.....My Grandma lives in Lincoln and I know I could'nt even afford an acre of land there.

Making 80K in MA, you sure as hell wouldn't be living in Brockton, but neither would you be living in Lincoln. That salary would get you into a nice middle-class area.

[Delta784]

Were $25 an hr with a four hr. minimum for side jobs.

We're at $35 per hour for "inside" jobs (banks, supermarkets, etc.), and $37 for road (construction) jobs, or anything involving alcohol (barrooms, nightclubs, weddings, etc.). A four-hour minimum for everything.

We still have a $3 per hour window to increase details before the contract expires in two years, so we could be at $38 and $40 shortly.

[LadyLawman]

Yeah I'd probably be living in Brockton.....My Grandma lives in Lincoln and I know I could'nt even afford an acre of land there.

I have an aunt that lives is Brockton, I hope to get up there one day to see her I will just make sure its in the summertime!!

I dont know how ya'll stand that bitter cold. The only bitter cold we get here is when the wind blows from the north and it willl get down in the 20"s ...... Man you should see us all bundled up down here when its 50 LOL

[BrickCop]

IMan you should see us all bundled up down here when its 50 LOL

I'd happily break out the speedos if it hit 50 this month... :eek: :D

[TXLady]

but then we usually do. Last week one day hit near 80 degrees. Nature is confused here all the time. Grass has already turned green in places, the trees are budding, birds are singing. Young men's thoughts have turned to love. Oh wait, that's all year round. :D

[LadyLawman]

I'd happily break out the speedos if it hit 50 this month... :eek: :D

:eek: SPEEDOS :eek: I think we can arrest for that here lol. If women cannot wear thongs on the beaches in this area speedos definetly have to be against the law, especially when you see an 80 year old man in them :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Catman]

We're being hijacked by foreigners! :eek:

Ladylawman, it's cold but I'd still rather live in New England. I was staioned in Panama City years ago at Tyndall AFB. Hardly anyone that lives in FL is from there and talk about a total lack of culture. Sorry, I'm just used to it up here, lots of history. Everywhere is a reminder of history and how the US was built, it's cool. Plus, we're all rich up here!

[BrickCop]

:eek: SPEEDOS :eek: I think we can arrest for that here lol. If women cannot wear thongs on the beaches in this area speedos definetly have to be against the law, especially when you see an 80 year old man in them :eek: :eek: :eek:

You do realize I was joking...they would be much too tight for me in the most important of places. ;) :D

[Delta784]

I'd happily break out the speedos if it hit 50 this month... :eek: :D

Thanks for the unwanted imagery in my mind. :mad: :p

[LadyLawman]

We're being hijacked by foreigners! :eek:

Ladylawman, it's cold but I'd still rather live in New England. I was staioned in Panama City years ago at Tyndall AFB. Hardly anyone that lives in FL is from there and talk about a total lack of culture. Sorry, I'm just used to it up here, lots of history. Everywhere is a reminder of history and how the US was built, it's cool. Plus, we're all rich up here!
LOL thats cause it was Panama City thats the most backwoods area next to Starke LOL I went there once and will never go back again. Now you come down to my neck of the woods Cigar City. Lots of culture here lots

[LadyLawman]

You do realize I was joking...they would be much too tight for me in the most important of places. ;) :D
Chicken LOL

I prefer Swim trunk anyway much sexier :D

[Catman]

LOL thats cause it was Panama City thats the most backwoods area next to Starke LOL I went there once and will never go back again. Now you come down to my neck of the woods Cigar City. Lots of culture here lots

Yup, it's southern Alabama over there. If I had to live there permanently I'd eat a bullett! :D

[LadyLawman]

Yup, it's southern Alabama over there. If I had to live there permanently I'd eat a bullett! :D

Oh no doubt. Thats the biggest REDNECK beach in the State of Florida I'll never go back there unless its at gunpoint and even then I'll take bein shot at lol.

[realluke]

I lived in Weymouth Ma, then saw the light and moved to NH life is good here

[mikemac64]

In my department, for "details" or off duty work, we get $40 an hour with a minimum of 4 hours. We get an automatic 8 hours when we go over 4 hours. Not bad. Any jobs for town construction are at time and a half.

If it were worth it to me, I would hit the road and go to Florida. But I have 8 years into our ****ty retirement system and need 12 more to hit the minimums. Being a vet in MA, I get to buy back 4 years which will give me the equivilent of 24 years at age 53.

If I bailed now, I would recover my contributions to the pension, but that is it. No one in Florida would tell me how I could buy back my military time, though I am told I can, or if I can tansfer my Massachusetts pension somehow (in whole or part). So I just put it off and will wait until I can retire from here.

I own a small beach house on the coast here in MA and hope to have some life left to enjoy it.

Mac

[SinePari]

Back in the day, you had to make $80k+ to live inside of Route 128...now it's all the way out past I-495. I bought a nice place in the low $300s in central MA.

If I didn't get hired by this department I'm in now (I won the lottery on this one) we were considering moving to NC. It has everything like mountains, beaches, lots of land, low cost of living, friendly people. But ZERO culture. We don't care for college basketball, and they don't deserve a hockey team.

The SDs down there pay you crap, but you can go to a Community College and get your BLET just like in FL. We considered FL but it's so damn flat, dirty and ugly. Nice beaches though.

[code3_K9]

Well, Ive got 6 more weeks up here in Boston, before I have to report to warmer weather... I pry to god that it warms up to atleast 50 before I leave... Id like to get atleast 1 nice weekend to go play some golf... :o

PLEASE NO MORE SNOW!!!