Real estate market: There has to be a "ceiling" doesn't there?

[Martinjmpr]

I make less money than my counterparts who live and work in Wyoming.

Apparently there are more jobs than people in Wyoming so unless they are well compensated it is difficult to retain people.

And, yes, I have considered moving. Higher pay, lower cost or living, and no state income tax sounds like a win to me.

Interesting, what industry?

I went to school in WY and one of the biggest problems when I was there was that the jobs in WY offered such crap pay that most UW graduates had to go out of state to work. Even if I had wanted to stay in WY, there just weren't enough jobs and the ones that were available had crazy low salaries, barely enough to get by (while housing costs in WY can be low, prices for almost everything else are higher than in the rest of the country due to the fact that, like Alaska, almost everything has to be brought in from somewhere else.)

When I graduated from law school I didn't even try to find work in WY. Unless I wanted to hang my own shingle, there just wasn't enough work there. And this was in 2005 when oil and gas were booming.

The boom-and-bust cycle economy in WY doesn't help either (although I'm sure it's been a benefit to the meth and prostitution sectors .)