I lived on Staten Island for two years. I loved taking the train and the ferry to and from work twice a day and the pizza at South Ferry is still the best I've had.
Pete
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, whiterabbit32@... wrote:
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> I'd get use to it. Was in NYC for a 2 weeks and got use to it. There's ac in the house.
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> \ /\ Alice
> ( ) whiterabbit@...
> .( ). Sent from my iPhone 5
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> > On Jun 21, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Elizabeth <eawalker@...> wrote:
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> > Florida is humid.
> >
> > E in Long Beach
> > Sent from my iPad Mini
> > Be Happy!
> >
> >> On Jun 21, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Alice <whiterabbit32@...> wrote:
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> >>
> >> Tony, you're in CA? Small houses go for around the same price here in the Sacramento area, depending where you look. Premium gas, right now, $4.25 at our local Chevron. Jobs I see here run anywhere from $8 an hour (min wage) to $14 an hour depending on if its a secretaries job or an admin assistant. I can't believe everything they want you to know to make those wages. A normal secretary that files, answers email and answers the phone has to be pretty proficient in M$ Office. Heck, I can use Outlook and Word but I'm not able to do things like set up reminders in Outlook or schedule a meeting and invite people from contacts to a meeting to setting up a poll.
> >>
> >> We're very lucky to live in an area that uses SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District) we pay much less than those in the PG&E areas. We do have PG&E for gas but that's only stove. Water heater is electric, as is washer/dryer and AC/heating.
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> >> At some point, we would like to retire out of CA. So far, Florida seems a good place. Parts of Florida have weather like we're use to but I don't know the state well enough to know where it's less likely to have hurricanes. I like the Keyes but only for vacationing. The winter weather there is iffy.
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> >> \ /\ Alice
> >> ( ) whiterabbit@...
> >> .( ). Sent from my iPad mini
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> >>> On Jun 21, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Tony <tdale@...> wrote:
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> >>>
> >>> Wow, interesting. Seems we pay much more dollarwise now. When I was first in the US in 02, I asked a few, they seemed then that a 40k salary here would equate to about 35k in the US. Not so now, by these figures.
> >>>
> >>> Teacher here may start around 50k I'd say. Houses $300,000 for a low end, 350,000 to 400,000 normally. My electric is $150, small car the same, TV/Internet/Phone the same
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From: Carol Corley <floridabouvs@...>
> >>> To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
> >>> Sent: Saturday, 22 June 2013 11:40 AM
> >>> Subject: [iPad] Re: Electric and Hybrid Car vs. pure Gas cars: pros, cons and $$$
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Minimum wage is decided by states here and lowest is $5.15, Wyoming, and most states use $7.35, some higher.
> >>> Office worker with no qualifications might be a bit more, maybe not.
> >>> There are a lot of internships with no pay at all and companies go from free intern to free intern. The poor interns hope for a job at the end of the free period, but that's not happening much any more.
> >>> Teachers here earn about $35,000 to start and people can buy a nice house for $150,000 in Florida, gas about $3.50 a U.S. gallon. Can buy a small new car for $17,000. Monthly electric here $280 a month, TV/Internet/home phone $170 a month.
> >>> Sick days depend on companies. Some get them, some don't.
> >>> Vacation starts at one week, then two weeks. Again. Florida.
> >>> Maybe half a dozen public holidays.
> >>> Carol
> >>>
> >>> Tony wrote:
> >>> Ok, lets test.
> >>>
> >>> The minimum legal adult wage here is $13-75 per hour.
> >>>
> >>> An office worker with no qualifications might get $16 per hour
> >>>
> >>> I think the average wage here is $50000 pa which is $24 per hour
> >>>
> >>> We get 5 sick days (although I get 10 ) and we get 4 weeks holiday, not including public holidays, of which there are 11 per year
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPad 3
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> >>>
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