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Texas ranks 2 cities in top ten for lowest cost of living.
"Our list factors in the major components of cost of living including: goods & services, groceries, health care, housing, transportation, and utilities"
[link:http://www.areavibes.com/library/10-cities-lowest-cost-of-living/|
villager
(26,001 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)the post, rather than resort to name calling. Thanks for the
clarification CP.
villager
(26,001 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)"Republican rule has allowed businesses to pollute as much as they want, bust unions, and avoid and/or cap liability. It is indeed a great environment for business. Just not so great for human beings."
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)we also rank in the most people at the poverty level.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)It's easy to have lower living expenses when your salary's suck.
The problem is when you want to buy a product that is the same price everywhere; Car, TV, IPad...Etc...
clarice
(5,504 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)from paved to unpaved will keep the cost of living down (unless you get sick sometime.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/why-texas-has-the-highest-percentage-of-uninsured-people-in-the-us/2011/08/02/gIQA1wIdHJ_blog.html
clarice
(5,504 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)There is nothing about Texas that I would like to see the rest of the nation adopt. Nothing personal, but it is not not the model I'm looking for. And yes, I have lived there.
clarice
(5,504 posts)ann---
(1,933 posts)in my view, is that it seceded from the union.
clarice
(5,504 posts)Paladin
(28,202 posts)That puts you ahead of a number of our resident Texas haters.
clarice
(5,504 posts)or is it just for ME ?
Paladin
(28,202 posts)Including the 3.3 million Texans who cast votes for Obama a few months ago. People who would never think of holding blanket prejudices against all black people or all Jewish people or all gay people, have no problem stereotyping every single resident of Texas as a Rick Perry wannabe. And I never tire of condemning them for it---not that it seems to do much good, anymore.....
clarice
(5,504 posts)denverbill
(11,489 posts)After all, on all of DU I haven't seen anyone post any threads about how great their state is, except you, and you have posted at least 2 in the last week. People don't like braggarts, and they particularly don't like braggarts talking up how great things are in a state run entirely by Republicans, and in a state which is a basket case in terms of poverty, pollution, and illegal labor. But, thanks to the complete lack of scruples on the part of Texas businessmen, Texas will be turning blue before much longer. That will make things interesting.
clarice
(5,504 posts)Response to denverbill (Reply #26)
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SheilaT
(23,156 posts)has almost nothing to do with you personally. It has to do with how appalling Texas is in many ways. If the only thing that state ever did wrong was to give us President George W Bush, it would still have a lot to answer for.
clarice
(5,504 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)He was a total incompetent who squandered a growing budget surplus to get us into endless unnecessary war and took about a third of his total time in office as vacations.
I sincerely hope the Republicans are paying you to spend your time here, because you won't convince anyone that Texas is totally wonderful.
I do like to say that we live in a wonderful country with fifty wonderful states, and for all of us there are states you couldn't pay us to
clarice
(5,504 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Cost of living is great until one realizes that Texas ranks 47th in SAT scores, 44th in graduation rates, 50th in percentage of population who've graduated from high school; bottom third of states in child welfare, close to the bottom for Medicaid services and quality of life for individuals with disabilities, etc.
However, since we rank number two in cost of living, and number seven (in the world, not amongst states) as a producer of CO2, I s'pose it's a wash for an intractable dogma...
clarice
(5,504 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)You're simply shilling for Rick Perry.
The stats Latern shows above has me thinking that this is not a great place to raise a kid.
clarice
(5,504 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)Texas ranks 47th in SAT scores, 44th in graduation rates, 50th in percentage of population who've graduated from high school; bottom third of states in child welfare, close to the bottom for Medicaid services and quality of life for individuals with disabilities, etc.
clarice
(5,504 posts)tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Someone who received a bad education, has few job prospects, and an abysmal social safety net.
Look, I'm not trying to throw stones here (I happen to live in Florida) but you are sounding more like a tourism ad than someone who is making a logical argument. Texas has it's good points (Austin!), and it's bad, but you have to be able to acknowledge the bad if you want anyone to listen to your version of the good. Otherwise you just sound like you're giving a sales pitch.
clarice
(5,504 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)as they say in Texas---all hat and no cattle.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)And the cities are Democratic strongholds. Houston has a lesbian mayor and a strong Democratic base. It's very progressive with a strong LGBT community and is now considered the No. 1 city in the US for diversity of population.
The fact that the yahoos in Deep East Texas and West Texas have had control for 20 years is the problem. But that's changing for the better a little bit every single day.
I live in the city and love it. We have a Pacifica radio station and have had for 40 years. We have a strong progressive infrastructure in Houston. No acknowledged Republican has ever won a city-wide election in Houston, to my knowledge.
clarice
(5,504 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)can only surmise that you post these flamebait pieces for no reason other than to stir up shit.
Texass sucks. It is a horrible place run by horrible people and the nation would be better off without it. The few good things it as (inadvertently or through random chance) produced are far outweighed by the bad things is has and continues to impose on the rest of the nation.
Happy now?
clarice
(5,504 posts)Notafraidtoo
(402 posts)And again you show how silly it is, the reason cost of living is low is because no one makes any money and people don't want to be there DUH! supply and demand, Its expensive in good places this isn't something to be proud of just like with the whole number one in small business climate means that employers can abuse employees and can endanger consumers.
clarice
(5,504 posts)in droves. There is a saying in Texas. " I wasn't born in Texas,
but I came here as soon as I could."
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)This place is a shit hole of the worst magnitude. All you've done is show, you're a top per-center.
Try living on minimum wage and 30 hours a week. All of those goods and services are out of reach.
The only reason you get those things at such a low cost, is because people like me, don't get fair compensation.
You would know that if you ever came out of your gated community.
Your "braggadocio" is shameful.
clarice
(5,504 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)Obviously, the poster can afford many.
Truth
Aristus
(66,075 posts)The I-5 Corridor of Washington State has a notoriously high cost of living. But I'll take it. I'm never living in Texas again...
clarice
(5,504 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)I used to love living in Texas, too. But that was when I was a kid, long before I learned to understand politics. It can be a great state again, and people like Senator Wendy Davis and our Texan DU-ers are proof of that.
But even if it re-gains its erstwhile greatness someday, I still won't live there. Cockroaches...
clarice
(5,504 posts)I saw one so big the other day, it had gold chains and a Mister T haircut.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)my Dad woke up one morning to find a cockroach trying on his combat boots.
clarice
(5,504 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)Now, do you mean putting them in the gumbo in purpose? Because I'm familiar with how easily cockroaches can find their way into food by accident. Yet another reason I live in the cool rainy PNW. I hated pouring a bowl of cereal in the morning, and having a roach be the free surprise in the box...
clarice
(5,504 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)after twenty years.
clarice
(5,504 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,360 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)who has just rejected free Federal money for a major Medicaid expansion.
clarice
(5,504 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)high school graduation
obesity
health care
women's issues
and on and on.
clarice
(5,504 posts)I 'm sure that every State has issues that need to be changed.
We are trying hard.
cali
(114,904 posts)but you present such a one sided view of things.
clarice
(5,504 posts)ananda
(28,781 posts)I've lived in Texas all my life, and the cost of living here IS relatively low.
But the poor do live in extreme poverty conditions, and immigrant labor
has been historically exploited.
Here in Austin the cost of living is somewhat higher than it was in Houston.
Real estate and rentals account for that, along with groceries. The utilities
are a bit lower, though.
In Sacramento and down to San Simeon, the gas prices are about 20 to 40
cents a gallon higher depending. Groceries in Sacramento were lower, though.
I would expect real estate and rentals to be on a par with Austin's.
Now San Francisco is a whole other story. The cost of living there is very high
because of real estate. For example, for an apartment similar to the one I'm
living in now, I'd have to pay 3 to 4 times as much per month. A little bitty dump
of an apartment goes for about $1600 a month there.
So all in all I'm happy here in Austin. It's green and radical and funky. But I sure
wouldn't want to be poor here. I expect that there are states who treat their
poor much better.
clarice
(5,504 posts)ananda
(28,781 posts)I miss Houston's culture a lot, but I prefer Austin's weather and landscape.
It's fun demonstrating here at the capitol too. People here are just so
happy and friendly too. It's as though there are no strangers.
clarice
(5,504 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)It's a competition. But at least you have beaches instead of mudflats.
clarice
(5,504 posts)Alaskan "Alaska is bigger than Texas"
Texan "Not when it melts"
Come to think of it, I guess that's not too funny nowadays.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)We should ship you guys some water.
clarice
(5,504 posts)DebJ
(7,699 posts)She said the city is more than 50% immigrants during the day, then empties out at night.
Some of that labor is people who do things like cleaning houses for practically zero wages.
That would keep the 'cost of living' down; but I don't see what is good about it.
clarice
(5,504 posts)It is more than they could ever make in Mexico. I guess it's
a trade off.