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Come to DC. We'll show you what terrible really means. At least your rail cars don't try and kill you.
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Docjowles posted:The T definitely has issues but yeah it's only completely awful compared to NYC which is god tier mass transit. As he said, at least it exists. Let's talk about subway / rail options in Denver, or the entire southern US, or Southern California. It will be a short chat. This post makes me miss living in Japan.
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flosofl posted:Why? Granted I haven't been paying attention, but have home prices gone up significantly? I bought mine in Feb 2011 in the western burbs, but I pretty much got a steal because housing was still depressed. My taxes went up a little bit, but nothing that would make me scream that I'm getting buried in taxes. Illinois is going down hard right now with no signs of slowing. Poor schools with no money means teachers move to other states that actually have hopes of paying out a pension, dropping school quality. A broke state threatening bankruptcy because they can't get a yearly budget together in under 2 years means public services are all threatened, and businesses are leaving. Transit is expensive as poo poo because they need to get their income directly from the commuters. Property taxes are going up to try to meet the monetary needs of the government. So you spend a ton of money on property tax, send your kids to an underfunded school system, pay out the nose to use highways and trains, and the state still can't promise to meet their spending needs on public services. Maybe it's not so bad for individuals looking to bring in good money but for raising a family nearly any other state is better. Going towards a specialty in network security I'm heavily considering the Charlotte area, and their job market looks pretty solid right now.
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2.13% average across the state. It varies wildly because most of the state is cornfields, but most of the people live in Chicago. From 2014:  And Chicago implemented a property tax increase last year.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:
That is one thing to consider about Denver and Colorado in general. It is a great place for active singles, but we are like 48th in school funding and there are a number of factors -- school district tea party takeovers, laws constraining how taxes can be raised and spent -- that means things aren't getting better any time soon.
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H110Hawk posted:What is the property tax rate in Illinois? It depends on the county and municipality. Cook county, which is the City of Chicago and the first ring burbs, is around 1.7-2.0%. The 'collar' counties like Lake, DuPage, Will, etc are as high as 2.5-3.0%. I am looking at some new construction in Naperville and it's 2.67% there, and the basic bitch model starts at $320k, and most houses average in the lower $400's, which if you do the math, is over $10k/year. We also had our state income tax double from 2.5% to 5% about 5 years ago, and then they dropped to 3.75% last year.
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LochNessMonster posted:Crossposting from the resume and interview thread because I kind of am in a hurry and this thread gets a lot more attention so it seems. You can go one of two ways. 1) total honesty, tell them you have another option but you won't know if you're interested for another 10 days, at which time you'll accept or reject their offer(s), or 2) Accept the better of the two, tell them you need 3 weeks before you can start, if option 3 is good, call them and say you decided to decline.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:2.13% average across the state. It varies wildly because most of the state is cornfields, but most of the people live in Chicago. mayodreams posted:It depends on the county and municipality. Cook county, which is the City of Chicago and the first ring burbs, is around 1.7-2.0%. The 'collar' counties like Lake, DuPage, Will, etc are as high as 2.5-3.0%. I am looking at some new construction in Naperville and it's 2.67% there, and the basic bitch model starts at $320k, and most houses average in the lower $400's, which if you do the math, is over $10k/year. Thanks. That is comically high.
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Vulture Culture posted:If you're concerned about your commute length, a lot of NYC tech jobs will let you telecommute a couple of days a week, even big banks. It's a common benefit because of the absurd housing costs near the city. Nobody wants to be beholden to the MTA or NJ Transit for 4 hours a day. It's looking more and more like Long Island is where we'll end up. The LIRR of the 3 transit outfits is pretty reliable, even in the snow. I take the subway every day now and it's fine for the most part. Commuting by train is fine as long as its 40 minutes or under. The big problem is, the LIRR is expensive as hell.
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My house is valued at 280k. My prop taxes were about 7.5k. gently caress this poo poo.
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WNY has areas where $200k houses have 8k+ property taxes.
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The city valued my house about 20 grand more than the bank. I complained and they re-assessed it for 25 grand more than the bank.
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GreenNight posted:The city valued my house about 20 grand more than the bank. I complained and they re-assessed it for 25 grand more than the bank. Trolling appraisers, nice.
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Alchenar posted:Just straight up ask "if you make me an offer how soon will you need a response?'" Company 3 unfortunately can't move it forward, I asked them but they want to bring in a guy who's only available on fridays. Next week I'm in a training so can't make time for an interview so it'll be the week after. I tried for this week but that didn't work out for them. Second interview with company 1 went pretty well. They want to hire me but made me a really low salary offer (20% lower than what ai currently earn and they roughly know my range). Told them I'm not accepting that offer and will get back to them in the week after my training. They already told me it's just a first offer and they really want to make it work, so I guess I'm able to get a decent offer if I want to go work for them. I (feel like I) am not in the position to tell company 3 to hurry up though. They can probably get people with a similar set of skills but I don't have many options with companies like them but would love to work for them. Company 1 and 2 can't find a lot of people with the skills they want (and I have) so hopefully they don't mind waiting a bit longer. DigitalMocking posted:You can go one of two ways. I'm not sure if option 2 is legal in the country I live in (not the US). I could probably get away with option 1 since both companies really seem to want to hire me.
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The like one other Vancouver guy posting in this thread is probably laughing as hard as I am at your piddly property values and tiny tax assessments.
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LochNessMonster posted:I'm not sure if option 2 is legal in the country I live in (not the US). I could probably get away with option 1 since both companies really seem to want to hire me. Not sure what country you live in, but you can always decline an offer before starting, or you can just quit on day 0. :p Its not in the best taste, but I do see it done from time to time.
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CLAM DOWN posted:The like one other Vancouver guy posting in this thread is probably laughing as hard as I am at your piddly property values and tiny tax assessments. How are the income taxes in Canada? I'm about 27% with federal and state and that's only increasing.
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CLAM DOWN posted:The like one other Vancouver guy posting in this thread is probably laughing as hard as I am at your piddly property values and tiny tax assessments. I mostly lurk but my 3 bedroom townhouse in the valley (about an hour drive from Downtown Vancouver) is higher than most of them. mayodreams posted:How are the income taxes in Canada? I'm about 27% with federal and state and that's only increasing. The marginal rate is 30% but my average tax rate (total taxes paid/total income) last year was about 15% and gross income was $64K, but you have to factor in other non-income taxes like the sales tax. Sym fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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LmaoTheKid posted:It's looking more and more like Long Island is where we'll end up. The LIRR of the 3 transit outfits is pretty reliable, even in the snow. I take the subway every day now and it's fine for the most part. Commuting by train is fine as long as its 40 minutes or under. The big problem is, the LIRR is expensive as hell. Where on LI? The LIRR is anything but reliable, about once every 2 weeks there are massive delays because someone parked their car on the tracks or someone jumped in front of a train and killed themselves. A lot of these troubles can be avoided if you're able to take the port Washington line instead of the Ronkonkoma line.
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CLAM DOWN posted:The like one other Vancouver guy posting in this thread is probably laughing as hard as I am at your piddly property values and tiny tax assessments. http://www.crackshackormansion.com/
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LmaoTheKid posted:It's looking more and more like Long Island is where we'll end up. The LIRR of the 3 transit outfits is pretty reliable, even in the snow. I take the subway every day now and it's fine for the most part. Commuting by train is fine as long as its 40 minutes or under. The big problem is, the LIRR is expensive as hell. If your company has more than 20 full-timers, they are mandated to offer you some kind of pre-tax commuter plan, which I would imagine covers some kind of LIRR-unlimited card type thing. http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/pre-tax-transit-benefits-law.page
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mayodreams posted:How are the income taxes in Canada? I'm about 27% with federal and state and that's only increasing. It varies by province because we have federal and provincial income tax, so here in BC I have a 29.7% marginal income tax rate for my income level. I am in favour of this going up, I get stuff in return for this.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Where on LI? The LIRR is anything but reliable, about once every 2 weeks there are massive delays because someone parked their car on the tracks or someone jumped in front of a train and killed themselves. A lot of these troubles can be avoided if you're able to take the port Washington line instead of the Ronkonkoma line. My worst time on that line was in 2011 when a lightning strike took out all switching between the East River tunnels and Jamaica, but I was one of the smart/lucky ones who was able to grab the E to Sutphin Blvd. before everything got real bad and everyone got stuck until 1 AM. Beyond that, I only had a small handful of minor delays.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Where on LI? The LIRR is anything but reliable, about once every 2 weeks there are massive delays because someone parked their car on the tracks or someone jumped in front of a train and killed themselves. A lot of these troubles can be avoided if you're able to take the port Washington line instead of the Ronkonkoma line. We're looking in Westbury. Inspector_666 posted:If your company has more than 20 full-timers, they are mandated to offer you some kind of pre-tax commuter plan, which I would imagine covers some kind of LIRR-unlimited card type thing. We have that but the limit is something like 150$ and the LIRR is  way more expensive, its a nice subsidy tho.Vulture Culture posted:Ronkonkoma line is a wreck, I had much better luck commuting on the Babylon line. Yeah my main experience with the LIRR was back in 06 when I first got this job (still here!) and I was commuting from Babylon. It was reliable as hell. And I still laugh at people who are too afraid to use the subwat to go to another station when there's a service outage on one line.
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LmaoTheKid posted:We have that but the limit is something like 150$ and the LIRR is Oh yeah wow, it's like $340/month  Still cheaper than buying a new ticket every day though!I've only ever taken the LIRR 3-4 times since I need to get waaaay out East and those trains run like, 1.5 times a month.
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Inspector_666 posted:Oh yeah wow, it's like $340/month Honestly, of the three lines, the LIRR is still the best. Ive talked to friends who rely on NJT and its basically one huge delay out of NYC, and Metro North has had 3 major derails in the last 5 years. Those trains run more frequently on the summer out east. For obvious reasons. It's not the worst thing in the world, for all the poo poo LI gets (deservedly) it's a pretty awesome place from late april to late october. It's just expensive as hell.
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LmaoTheKid posted:Honestly, of the three lines, the LIRR is still the best. Ive talked to friends who rely on NJT and its basically one huge delay out of NYC, and Metro North has had 3 major derails in the last 5 years. NJT is hosed by the physical constraints of the tunnels linking it to NYC, but they're totally gonna get the billions of dollars approved to fix that any day now!
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CLAM DOWN posted:It varies by province because we have federal and provincial income tax, so here in BC I have a 29.7% marginal income tax rate for my income level. Yeah Americans have never got that whole "get what you pay for" concept when it comes to taxes.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Yeah Americans have never got that whole "get what you pay for" concept when it comes to taxes. It sucks, because taxes are a good thing. We have 12% sales tax too, and even more on liquor. My "suburb" of Vancouver has ~6% residential property tax too.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Yeah Americans have never got that whole "get what you pay for" concept when it comes to taxes. Well right now we don't get what we pay for. See the previous post about state taxes in Illinois.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Yeah Americans have never got that whole "get what you pay for" concept when it comes to taxes. What they don't get is that one way or another, you always pay. That's relevant to IT as well. If you don't budget for backups, you'll have to budget for not having backups, etc.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Yeah Americans have never got that whole "get what you pay for" concept when it comes to taxes. Our taxes in a nutshell. Marginal tax rate is (All Taxes Paid) / (Taxed Income) right? I am looking at my return for this year and it is a lower % than I thought it would be. Thank god for accountants.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Yeah Americans have never got that whole "get what you pay for" concept when it comes to taxes. Crippling construction contracts?
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rafikki posted:If you've got some networking knowledge and the basics of Linux, we're hiring some folks in the Denver Tech Center area. I also regularly get a lot of hits from LinkedIn and Dice for the kinds of positions you're probably looking for. How long do you think you'll be looking for folks for this sort of thing? Denver is one of the areas I'd like to consider moving (I live in bumfuck North Carolina right now). I've got a CCNA and basic Linux skills so this sounds right up my alley. I'm probably going to start job hunting again in May once I've been at this current position for a year. I just need to get out of this area before I go insane.
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H110Hawk posted:Our taxes in a nutshell. http://canadianfinanceblog.com/marginal-tax-rate-explained/
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H110Hawk posted:Our taxes in a nutshell. That's average rate. Marginal rate would be the tax rate on your last dollar of income. But yeah, this often gets people. Someone will see the marginal rate is 25%/28% (those two brackets probably cover most of the thread), and go off about federal income taxes without realizing their average rate is probably below 20%, and significantly below that if they own a house or have children.
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Inspector_666 posted:Well right now we don't get what we pay for. See the previous post about state taxes in Illinois. Yeah, if raising sales tax by 2%, income tax by 2%, and property tax by 1% netted us government healthcare, good schooling, solid infrastructure and free public transit I wouldn't have anything to complain about. The current benefits my taxes pay for are: high six posted:How long do you think you'll be looking for folks for this sort of thing? Denver is one of the areas I'd like to consider moving (I live in bumfuck North Carolina right now). I've got a CCNA and basic Linux skills so this sounds right up my alley. I'm probably going to start job hunting again in May once I've been at this current position for a year. I just need to get out of this area before I go insane. I'm looking towards the Charlotte area, care to expand on which part of North Carolina is "bumfuck" to make sure I avoid it? From what I've gathered there's Charlotte, the city in the west, and Raleigh, the city in the east, and everywhere else is desolate garbageland or expensive coastal resorts.
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