Re: OT: Places to live

Well, uh, I've lived two places recently.

College Station, TX - low, low rent and cost of living. We're talking
seriously low. Lowest unemployment in the country, but unfortunately a
huge population of families under the poverty line. Lots of petty
crime, no real violent crime (nobody is starving to death). I visited
a few months ago and got so much carne guisada for $6 that I thought
I'd have to take a wheelchair into the plane after I ate it all. When
my wife and I were both working, we lived like royalty in this town.
You couldn't drag me back there with wild horses today, though.

St. Louis, MO - or more specifically "west county". I don't feel
comfortable posting what I pay in rent, but it's twice what I paid in
Texas. That being said, it's about twice as nice... Real estate and
taxes are unbelieveably high here, the MO govt sends me a letter every
week saying I owe them thousands of dollars for wages earned in 2004
(all earned in TX, btw). The kicker is that you drive 5 miles north,
west, or south, and it's a wasteland. There is *nothing*, but a rinky
dink house will cost upwards of $250k.

The food is generally terrible, I'm cooking things at home that I never
would have dreamed of cooking because I could walk into any random
restaurant and get it for $5 before. The people are fairly moderate,
though I've been told at least three times, "someone will shoot you if
you go around saying things like that." There's not enough mixing, so
everyone kinda looks the same. :(

Lots of crap going on, but we'll be moving as soon as I'm done with
graduate school. On a corporate level, it's a dying city and all the
big companies are fleeing.

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