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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
What's a 100% match? Sounds like an employee benefit. Sadly, in small towns like where I live the great majority of employeers do not offer benefits. Everyone is a small business or hire seasonally.
I get the feeling that where I live it's now getting the short end of both sticks. The job market isn't great and housing prices have jumped in leaps and bounds. The only way to make enough money and have benefits is to have a degree in something, such as being a doctor.
Of course that's another investment, go to college. But at my age it probably wouldn't be worth it even if I could.
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Sounds like it might be time to look for a new place to live. I grew up in a dead auto town and left the state ASAP.
That said, if your housing prices are skyrocketing then either you are getting a lot of retirees or someone is paying enough to support those prices. What are all these people doing for work that are buying up homes?
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Where I live people with kids are getting put lower on the desireable list. There are several places that are known to never rent to people with kids. Maybe because there's been such a demand that rentors can choose at whim who best fits their perfect renter.
I know that this summer I tried to find a bigger place for my family; man, wife, three boys and no pets. I put in dozens of applications and paid hundreds in application fees and NO ONE ever got back to me with "we have a rental available for you and your family" even after my repeated inquires. Only one got back and asked if we were still looking but never got back to me after that with an actual rental available. But all of these places have rented houses and multi-bedroom apartments to single people who split the rent among room mates, most of whom are new to the valley and don't have 15 years living and working here like I do.
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Could be owners are choosing not to rent to families with kids (that would be illegal BTW) or it could be that the singles that are new to the area have jobs that pay more and show better rent to income ratios. They could be making California tech job money working remotely and choosing to live in Colorado.
Colorado is super hot right now. I personally know 3 people that have moved there from the Southeast in the last 2 years.