re: Did you actually attend an SEC University?

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Why be so fast at the draw to want to move threads?

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Well if I wanted to discuss my education and net worth I would go to the OT. If I want to discuss SEC sports I naturally come here to the rant. No sweat off my back either way but this thread should be moved.

Currently attending UF

Dropped out of AU after 2 quarters back in 1994. Wife graduated from AU with a PhD and 2 different Master degrees. We make the exact same salaries.

We became big LSU fans (2nd favorite team) while living in Baton Rouge for 5 years.

Yes, I did graduate from an SEC University.

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if I wanted to discuss my education and net worth I would go to the OT

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yeah you could just bump one of the hundred threads on it filled with people that have never stepped foot in here. You seem prudish for someone that doesn't care either way.
Anyway we disagree.

I did not attend an SEC school. I'm single and manage a small family wine distributor. It's mostly chill, make 50K and only work 4 days a week.

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I don't mean to be rude, but I typically don't get along with people from Alabama.

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That says a lot about you.

I attended one, but didn't graduate from one. As a freshman, I went to LSU. I did well the first semester, but was too preoccupied with titties and beer to even make it to class the second semester. I had to finish at a university with a few less options for fun/trouble to graduate, but will forever be loyal to LSU.

Not a baller, but got two degrees and doing a'ight.

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Keep in mind the reason you are getting Texas and West Coast. Texas = generally more stable economy depending where you move (Dallas is probably most stable) and West Coast = much higher cost of living. That being said if you search hard enough in that industry you can move where you want. Santa Fe and Boulder have a want for your field for example.

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Graduate of the University of Arkansas, though I have fond memories of Southern Illinois University where I majored in drinking and playing cards for a year and a half.

Usually I would say go where you need to go while your degree is hot but the West Coast, and Boulder for that matter, are hideously expensive places to live. Yes, the salaries are bigger but they disappear rapidly.

As an example a friend of mine who was a sheet metal worker (a skilled trade where he was making 100+ grand a year) moved out to California two decades ago with his wife. Despite pulling in 100k they never came close to being able to afford a house.

Now he is retired and on disability because of a back injury that makes it difficult for him to even walk, which precludes a second career as a teacher because sitting in a chair all day long is torture for him.

He rents a lopsided trailer 15 miles outside of town for 1400 a month and its a great deal for the area. Its smaller then the two bedroom place I was renting in Fayetteville (a block from the grocery store and liquor store, on a free bus route, and next to a nature trail) for 600 a month.

Or my other friend whose husband got laid off out there and now she is having to ask friends for "loans" to help pay the utilities and buy clothes for her little girl.

You will make a lot more money out on the coast but it is a lot harder to hold onto to it. 75 grand almost anywhere in the South will go a lot further then 90 grand out in San Jose. If you have to move for the work, move to Texas or Santa Fe and not out West unless they offer you a lot of cash.

I appreciate your recommendation so much!...but I am really not trying to move to Texas right now.

Great State! Very good economy, but too far away from Georgia.

I really like your people though. You guys are really "down-to-earth" and really "Deep-South". I like that!

If you are in the Atlanta market, then please hit me up as well. I am just not trying to make that move right now.

Best of luck to your Aggies!