Upstate New Yorker here! This is BS!!!!

[Pinlifter]

I havent been back in a while - sorry for the absence! What types of positions are you hiring for? I just finished out my contract here in NY and am currently unemployed -- best time to look for new positions! And a new state!

Labor...

Outside work... Nothing like you're currently doing.

http://www.unionpacific.jobs

 

[Texasjack]

I know one job description that is wide open at the moment. Truck drivers. All the truck drivers in Houston are quitting their jobs to work in the oil fields in South Texas. (Big money, but who knows how long it lasts.) The chemical plant where I work can't get enough trucks to get out products to market.

Generally speaking, Houston usually boasts about half of the jobs in Texas. Dallas/Ft. Worth and Austin probably make up another 30%.

 

[Texasjack]

I spent 3 1/2 years in upstate NY, so I know what you're up against. There were a lot of good folks (most of whom belonged to the local Rod & Gun Club), but most people have decided that they can't buck the government on anything. The taxes alone in NY will drive a person into the poor house! (Texas has no state income tax. Think about THAT on April 15.) The cost of living in NY is higher than other places because everything in the state is taxed. What do you get for those taxes that you don't get in Texas? Snow plows. That's it.

 

[Younggun]

I spent 3 1/2 years in upstate NY, so I know what you're up against. There were a lot of good folks (most of whom belonged to the local Rod & Gun Club), but most people have decided that they can't buck the government on anything. The taxes alone in NY will drive a person into the poor house! (Texas has no state income tax. Think about THAT on April 15.) The cost of living in NY is higher than other places because everything in the state is taxed. What do you get for those taxes that you don't get in Texas? Snow plows. That's it.

Oppression?

 

[inceptor]

I recently saw on the local news that a lot of corporations are moving their headquarters to Dallas.

 

[FrEaK_aCcIdEnT]

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[ROGER4314]

I left Chicago, where I was born, and moved all over the center of the US in my career. I ended up in Texas in 1992 and love it here! I'm retired now and won't leave here under any circumstances! I specified that my ashes be sprinkled in the Gulf of Mexico. I'm not going anywhere!

Flash

 

[Texasjack]

There's a great sign that got posted on imgur from somewhere in the southeast. It says, "Say what you will about the South, but nobody retires and moves north!"