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49. Even with mortgage rates as low as they are...

Reply to Sen. Walter Sobchak (Reply #48)

Tue Apr 23, 2013, 02:25 PM

Apr 2013

In OC you are looking at a 2000-3000 dollar mortgage. and that would be for a very modest 3-400k home. Rent is not much better.

I'm from the East coast... and I still get shivers thinking about slush. When it gets down to 45 in LA I think "Hah! This is cold but I won't be stepping in a Slush Puddle today".

Of the people who do get past the move... What is it that you are offering them to uproot their lives and come out to a moderate climate?

Standard? Is that the same as DOE... what gives? None of us are being recruited. What numbers are you offering?

EDIT: I've seen numbers as low as 17k and as high as 90k.

How much do you offer a person to uproot their lives and move 3000 miles across the country? It is a fairly simple question. Is there a reason you chose not to answer it?

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