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re: Hypothetical: you are offered 200k for a job...what is best city for family of 5?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:15 pm to Epic Cajun
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:15 pm to Epic Cajun
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You’re looking at data that is terribly skewed
Please explain
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doesn’t represent the OP.
I'm not referencing the OP. I'm referencing all the stupid shite that's been said after the OP like "you'd lose money in New Orleans if you only made 200k"
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Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:15 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
WITH THREE KIDS. I’ve said you can’t live comfortably there WITH THREE KIDS.
I don’t know why you keep leaving that off.
I don’t know why you keep leaving that off.
This post was edited on 2/15/18 at 10:17 pm
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:15 pm to PiscesTiger
Probably Shreveport
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:15 pm to AbitaFan08
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The question posed in the OP was where WOULD you live out of 4 options. I said not New Orleans because while one CAN live in New Orleans for that, it would be a much poorer quality of life than I’d want for my hypothetical family.
That’s all it boils down to. I want my family to have the same or better quality of life I had growing up. Good schools, safe neighborhood, fully funded college education, vacations to Europe, exposure to music and theatre and dining. And I want to fund my retirement so I can quit working at 65 if I want. That’s my choice, and I don’t look down on people who want a different life for their families. But I can’t do that on $200k/yr in New Orleans.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:16 pm to tigercross
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vacations to Europe,
The French are assholes.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:17 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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You've been disagreeing with that the entire thread
Surely you jest. He’s said many times that he wouldn’t do it because he values education and he’d have to make too many sacrifices to be able to give his children the life that he wants.
I said before, you can live in the ghetto and send your kids to public school easily on 200k. No one wants that.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:17 pm to tgrbaitn08
Stuart Hall is basically a male elementary version of Sacred Heart and those two are by far the most expensive. Other feeder schools are St Catherine, St Dominic, St Pius etc and they are all closer to 5500. And Christian Brothers is like 8500 last time I looked.
You should have no problem having a 3 kids in school at the same time and able to afford anything you need. Now you aren’t going to be going on European vacations every year but there are plenty of families doing quite fine in the OPs scenario.
I will agree that property values have really went up in the last 5 years so for someone moving here it may be more difficult to find nice housing vs someone already living here.
You should have no problem having a 3 kids in school at the same time and able to afford anything you need. Now you aren’t going to be going on European vacations every year but there are plenty of families doing quite fine in the OPs scenario.
I will agree that property values have really went up in the last 5 years so for someone moving here it may be more difficult to find nice housing vs someone already living here.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:19 pm to AbitaFan08
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I’ve said you can’t live comfortably there WITH THREE KIDS.
I don’t know why you keep leaving that off.
This is still a load of shite regardless of the amount of upvotes you get.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:20 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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You’re looking at data that is terribly skewed
Please explain
New Orleans has a larger poor population than the cities that you are comparing it to. If you look at average home prices in New Orleans, you’d think that you could go out and buy an average home for 200k. No one that I know would want to live in the location of a 200k home in New Orleans.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:20 pm to AbitaFan08
quote:Yes, it is. I just left New Orleans after 25 years and am intimately knowledgeable about both the schooling and real estate there.
It’s not absurd to say $200k isn’t enough to live comfortably in New Orleans.
Your definition of comfortable is fricked. You might not want the lifestyle, but $200k allows a perfectly comfortable lifestyle.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:23 pm to Epic Cajun
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New Orleans has a larger poor population than the cities that you are comparing it to.
This has exactly zero effect on cost of living index, and if it did it would drive prices of everything down.
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If you look at average home prices in New Orleans
According to COL index it is 1% higher than the national average
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:25 pm to Louie T
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I just left New Orleans after 25 years and am intimately knowledgeable about both the schooling and real estate there.
Alright, it sounds like you would know more than I on this subject then. So how much would tuition for 3 kids roughly be and where would one purchase a home in New Orleans to fit a family of 5?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:25 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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According to COL index it is 1% higher than the national average
So the housing costs are higher than the national average despite a huge inventory of shitholes in garbage neighborhoods pulling the average way down.
Doesn’t that suggest that decent homes in desirable locations would be well above the average?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:26 pm to PiscesTiger
Amazing at the # of folks in Louisiana making well over 200K. Why do people leave with all the high paying jobs?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:26 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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. I take issue with you disagreeing in all of your following posts that 200k is not enough to live there.
It is difficult for a family of 4/5 to live comfortable in a 2000-3000 sq ft house in considerably safe areaa, send all 2/3 kids to private schools in Orleans Parish on $200k. Why is that hard to understand?
Yes, if you want to live in Hollygrove, Central City, 9th Ward, etc, I guess you could swing it.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:27 pm to Louie T
Where did you live? How many kids in private school?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:27 pm to AbitaFan08
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Alright, it sounds like you would know more than I on this subject then. So how much would tuition for 3 kids roughly be and where would one purchase a home in New Orleans to fit a family of 5?
Average price for Catholic School for this school year was $9,800. Sacred Hart is 18K per year, next closest was 12K. They were the only two over 10k/year
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:27 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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This has exactly zero effect on cost of living index, and if it did it would drive prices of everything down.
Is housing not included in the cost of living index? Huge portions of the city are basically uninhabitable, but homes still sell there and drive down the average price of homes. As I said earlier, the average home price in a safe and desirable neighborhood is 400k+ especially when you’re looking at 4 bedroom places.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:28 pm to tgrbaitn08
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It is difficult for a family of 4/5 to live comfortable in a 2000-3000 sq ft house
So many Indian and Chinese OT’ers are going to let you have it in this thread.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 10:28 pm to tgrbaitn08
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It is difficult for a family of 4/5 to live comfortable in a 2000-3000 sq ft house in considerably safe areaa, send all 2/3 kids to private schools in Orleans Parish on $200k.
No its not. All number I have presented are for Orleans Parish
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Why is that hard to understand?
Because by all objective measures it's patently incorrect
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