Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
My last job has already lost some people that they brought in from Wyoming due to the living expenses. They went from making maybe $12/hr to closer to $18/hr ($36,000 salary), BUT the taxes and housing was so much more expensive that they couldn't swing it and ran back home.
Yeah... if your mortgage is more than 1/4 of your take home pay, you're asking for trouble. Our mortgage is a little less than that, but we had to work hard to slim down other areas of the budget