Atlanta All The Way
“We just couldn’t do it anymore,” said Public-relations executive Scott Merritt, 35, who, along with his teacher wife and two kids, left New York for more-affordable Atlanta. “Eventually we had to say enough was enough. It was just no way to live, and I could see no way out.” Merritt, who made an “above average”…
“We just couldn’t do it anymore,” said Public-relations executive Scott Merritt, 35, who, along with his teacher wife and two kids, left New York for more-affordable Atlanta. “Eventually we had to say enough was enough. It was just no way to live, and I could see no way out.” Merritt, who made an “above average” salary as a PR exec, and his family joined an estimated 40,000 New Yorkers who opted for the warmer, and more affordable, climes of Atlanta between 2000 and 2005. [NY Post]
NYC teachers don’t make as much as surrounding areas (and this article was not about a NYC family – nor does the article say that the 40k people moving to Atlanta area where from city).
here is pay chart for White Plains – not the highest paid district. Also keep in mind the these are ‘base’ salaries.
http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/teacher-pay-scale-white-plains-ny/
Teachers get paid extra for just about every extracurricular.
I have friends building up fat pensions who are in their last 3 years of working.
Atlanta just seems like a sprawl with little redeeming it.
For that area of country I’d go for Savannah or Charleston.
thanks insert! i love it!!! “It’s none of your business!…are financial able [sic] and stable to live where ever we feel fits.†you go NeNe girl!
*Rob*
rob, see this…
http://highbridnation.com/2008/12/04/nene-of-the-
real-housewives-of-atlanta-gets-evicted-husband-greg-is-
a-fraud/
NeNe is broke!?!? 🙁 how did that come to be? she has definitely been milking her 15 minutes tho. i hope it works out for her. they should fire miss jay on top model and replace him with nene. america’s next top model definitely needs some new blood anyway.
i thought the suburbs of atlanta were really crime ridden these days? is that not the case? i guess that’s why it would be cheaper. i would think it’s easier to live in crime infested part of a big city than it would be to live in a crime infested suburb. could you imagine getting chased for miles by roving street gangs (cul de sac gangs?) with no around!? sounds scary to me. crack treehouses?
ive never been down south. my grandmother is stuck living down there in south carolina and she absolutely HATES HATES HATES it. she is convinced everyone down there has some form of mild retardation.. i told her no, they are just slow living down there. and health care down there is terrible too apparently.. well i guess in the area where she lives. she really wants to move back up here badly (to the jersey city / north bergen area where she is originally from) but she cant (nor i) afford it so she’s on a senior citizen housing waiting list.
sorry i totally went all tangent there. is there an open thread today?
*rob*
It’s a good thing New York is not a segregated city!
..wait, nevermind.
My in-laws are in Marietta GA and its a 16 lane+ highway from Atlanta to Marietta. I think it’s about 15 miles. It takes an hour and a half each way at rush hour. Although there is mass transit, it’s not in widespread use, even IN the city.
And don’t believe what they way about the “new” south – it’s still segregated for a all practical purposes. There are some good things about the area, but I don’t think they outweigh the negatives.
well, she followed him from phoenix out to california
and then she passed out on the bed
and all the little things he never even asked her for
she simply smiled and shook her head
Looks like you need to be a teacher for a mighty long time before you hit $100k. Can anyone decipher this chart?
– http://www.uft.org/member/contracts/moa/salary_schedules_html/index.html
Atlanta is a hell hole. If I had to move back to the south there are a number of other places I would pick.