So are parts of New Hampshire and Vermont. It is becoming SO expensive to live that middle-class wage earners are moving away...you just can't afford to live here. I'm in a town of 20,000 in west NH, and rents average $1000 - 2000 per month. When you're making $15 - $20 per hour, it is tough to hang on. There are TONS of jobs, but no takers. Doctors, lawyers, and college professors can hack it, but the service industry that waits their tables, does their dry cleaning, and operates their retail sector are leaving...who will do their 'dirty work' then? Interesting times...
Doctors, lawyers, and college professors can hack it, but the service industry that waits their tables, does their dry cleaning, and operates their retail sector are leaving...who will do their 'dirty work' then? Interesting times...
Why, cheap illegal immigrants of course. High end hotels and cruise ships have already implemented cheap foriegn labor disguising it as a "fun foreign exchange program". Har har har....
I know, it's so true. I thought I could get a job there, but I couldn't crunch the numbers to make it work. It's funny to hear people who are dems there complain about the cost of living and jobs and illegal immigrants, but don't dare whisper that perhaps their support of the dems is at least part of the problem. It's humurous to hear some of the liberal talk radio on our drive, some of the callers are so close to conservative thought, yet they claim to hate it, and the dem system they worship is what is taxing them out of existence, but their 'solutions', when pressed, almost always involve more taxes.
It's easy to see who is taking those jobs, at least in some neighborhoods, that regular hard working Massachusan middle classers have to give up and leave - the illegal or barely legal immigrant. They afford the high rents by sharing living quarters with many others and do the work, but neither seems to realize it's the death of the middle class and the upper class Kerry's will just continue to lord it over whoever is left to do their 'dirty work'. Sadly, some of these immigrants may think they can achieve the 'American' dream, only to later be caught short when they can never rise above menial, low wage labor, once the middle class is really gone and the uppers rely on them to clean up. Ironically, my own rural western PA area has seen some migration of these Mass state middle class folks who come here to my area for the labor jobs.