scambo1

Can you say high cotton?

cni187

I would expect the NYC trend to continue as the mass exodus of junior guys out of there continue. Last AE had 90 slots for FO on the ER in NY and only 5 people bid in. That means 85 new hire slots to the ER in NY for next summer. I'd start looking for a crash pad now or look up real estate in Pennsylvania or Connecticut.

galaxy flyer

cni187,

Oh yeah, CT will be great for a newbie! I grew up in
Stamford, CT, 36 minutes to the EA Employee lot back in the days of the real shuttle. Now, traffic is way worse. Getting to JFK is miserable as the Van Wyck will under reconstruction thru, at least, 2020. Housing in Ct is ridiculous, Stamford is $500,000 minimum. Danbury is mildly affordable on 3rd year pay, maybe. But the commute is longer and schools in both places are terrible. Better to be elsewhere on reserve forever.

Penn means working out of EWR or commuting across one of the bridges.
GF

Timbo

Or buy in southern NH and drive 45 miles to BOS to jump on the Shuttle to LGA.

Probably the easiest commute in the system.

No sales tax, no state income tax, no deadbeats.

TeddyKGB

Penn and Conn have state income tax. if you don't want to pay state income tax here are your 8 choices

Alaska.
Florida.
Nevada.
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas.
Washington.
Wyoming.

sailingfun

Keep in mind that states that don't have a income tax with perhaps 3 exceptions make it up in other taxes. I looked at moving to FL from a state with a 6% income tax and after paying the property taxes and big jump in home insurance there was little to be gained.

Timbo

And as I said above...

NEW HAMPSHIRE!!

No Sales Tax, AND no state income tax.

The property tax may be higher than some but it's fully deductible off your federal and you get the 3rd highest rated public schools in the nation, out of 50.

I think Florida is 3rd from the bottom...but the best beaches...see any correlation?

Timbo

Here's some good reading r.e. states and taxes:

Seven States Without an Income Tax

From the article:

States With The Lowest Taxes

To rank the state’s tax burdens, the Tax Foundation compared the total taxes that state residents pay as a percentage of per capita income. Included in the total taxes are local taxes such as property taxes and local sales taxes. The states whose residents pay the least in taxes are:
•Alaska at 6.4% of income
•Nevada at 6.6% of income
•Wyoming at 7% of income
•Florida at 7.4% of income
•New Hampshire at 7.6% of income

It’s interesting to note that none of these states have an individual income tax.


States With The Highest Taxes

At the bottom of the Tax Foundation’s rankings were these states, with the highest tax burdens in the nation:
•New Jersey at 11.8% of income
•New York at 11.7% of income
•Connecticut at 11.1% of income
•Maryland at 10.8% of income
•Hawaii at 10.6% of income


New York and New Jersey consistently come in on top as the highest taxing states. These two states have topped the list of the worst states for business taxes and New York counties have made the top of the list for the having highest property taxes in the nation. New York also has some of the highest sales taxes in the nation and all of the states on the list have high income tax rates for their top tax brackets.


And here's some school rankings, 4th and 8th grade math, scroll down:

http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/rea...te-performance

maddogmax

When I moved to Seattle, I was so happy about no state income tax. Until it cost me $750 dollars to put plates on my 3 year old car. The state has to get their money from some place.

scambo1

There are also states with high income tax, high sales tax and high property tax. Me, I prefer the less government approach.