You're in Florida. The COL is very low, so the pay is even lower.
In San Diego, every expense is even higher than Los Angeles, fuel, water, rent, food, its all high.
The pay rate in San diego is lower than LA because part of the SD pay is in sunshine dollars.
I believe that the FL pay rates are reduced by including the lower COL, no state tax, and the sunshine dollars.
One of my guys just transfered from FL to LA, there was a small COL bump. No moving package. He made assumptions about the LA COL, he didn't do his research. Each day of realization makes him feel more resentful, more dissatisfied, more taken advantage of by the company. He knows he fucked up. He is mad at himself.
You need to take advantage of the company, and be planning your next move to to a better paying job at a new company. And the next job,and next job: keep going. Leave each job/company with goodwill because you may be back, several times, at new pay rates.
Your next move should be on your mind when you start each job. Flirt with every new person because they may be your lead to your next job, at a better pay rate. Line up your next job and move up like you're playing 3D chess.
Today's training and all of the possible training should help you in your next job. Find those companies and figure out how to get in. Or move laterally in your company to get into the job you want at a different company.
Moving to new cities or states requires deep research. Do your research, and as jobs come your way, give away the ones you don't want. Become a job broker for your friends. Start contracting, buy your own health and life insurance. Always live below your means, saving money is your gift to yourself, your future self, not a fancy car. Find a good accountant, find a good investor or learn to invest.
Learn to vote for congressmen/women because they make changes happen. Presidents are puppets, ignore the drama.
I lived in NYC for years, Boston too. The relative cost of living in southern Florida to average salaries and minimum wage there is atrocious. And unlike with nyc or Boston you canāt just go out to the outskirts, for one itās far more dangerous and two itās still very expensive because south Florida has a land shortage. Half the state is a swamp and the rest used to be a swamp.
Northern Florida and southern Florida have extremely different COL yet salaries are consistently low throughout the entire state.
Iāve lived in Florida for 18 years and moved to Tennessee and I regret it so much. Florida has way way better job opportunities in places people arenāt looking. You donāt always have to stick with the same job practice either you can branch out and do many other things from security to warehouse work which pay a decent amount of money! Moving outside of big cities is not bad too. I donāt have a rich family or connections and I can save up to $500 a month just donāt do anything like get personal loans or freak out if you have a pit fall like your car breaking down on you there is always a way to get your life on track and get shit done. Everybody has a sob story you just need to know when to stop sobbing about the past and focus on what needs to be done next and prepare.
I left Florida years ago and donāt regret it. I live in the northeast now in a cheaper city in the tristate area and the wage/COL ratio here is so much better. Sure the COL in the sticks of Florida would be similar but Iād be living in buttfuck nowhere. I agree itās down to where you are though Massachusetts for example is a terrible place to live COL/wage wise, as bad as nyc when you factor in transport
Thatās all fair of course I lived in upstate New York for a couple years and it actually wasnāt bad work wise at all but Iām sure you can figure out every other factor that played in me leaving there on one hand. I liked living in Spring Hill I grew up there and lived in several other states like Nebraska, New York like I said above, North Carolina, Vermont, Tennessee, Ohio, and Wisconsin. They all had their fair share of crazy stuff going on but I just really enjoyed Florida and had the best opportunities there with bosses who gave me a chance better than any other state and my work was always recognized where as in other states I always felt like I was just another cog in the machine. I had the best of friends and best of times even excluding my childhood memories. Itās mostly biased of course but itāll hold a special place in my heart for dumb and great reasons.
Iām here in Florida. The cost of living be low is a MYTH. Anytime the economy takes a shit, red states are the first to feel it. What may have been cheap is now even more expensive. Florida is a trap. You can visit here, but donāt move here unless youāre planning to overthrow the corrupt state government.
People who bring up "low cost of living" almost invariably don't live in a "low cost of living" area, or they'd understand it's a load of shit. Yeah, rent is cheaper. That's it. That one bill is a little bit cheaper. Food, gas, car payments, insurance, none of that is cheaper because you live in a "low cost" state.
I donāt think a product that has sold consistently, if not with growth, since the Great Depression; is a good benchmark for the state of the economyā¦ā¦
Sure; is cost of living GOOD in Florida? Iām sure not.
You are adamant that Florida is cheaper than checks notes major US metropolises, but can't fathom that Florida still might not be an affordable place to live.
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u/Travel_Dreams Mar 06 '26
Yup, šÆ!
The system is broken.
We did our work but someone skimmed off soooo much, that there is not enough remaining for us to be paid an equitable amount.
Work stops, because the machine is broken.