How far does $48k USD get in you Atlanta?

[nitsuj3580]

Originally posted by: Rudee
My favorite place in Atlanta is the airport departure gate. God I hated that City.

I hate that airport. Flight was originally deporting from Gate D something but we got there and they changed it. So me and a dozen other people had to sprint back to the train, get off at B, and sprint down to Gate B something which was of course at the very end of the B terminal.

 

[MaxDepth]

Oh, I thought you wrote $45/hr.


She love you long time for one hour.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: nitsuj3580

Originally posted by: Rudee
My favorite place in Atlanta is the airport departure gate. God I hated that City.

I hate that airport. Flight was originally deporting from Gate D something but we got there and they changed it. So me and a dozen other people had to sprint back to the train, get off at B, and sprint down to Gate B something which was of course at the very end of the B terminal.

Then you'd hate all airports. That happens everywhere.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I have a jorb opportunity in Eugene, Oregon.

Wanted to know if 52,000 will be good money there.

Sorry I cant help you with Atlanta, I only visited once and it was 10 years ago.

$52k/yr. is decent money in Eugene. A little above the median.

$48k in Atlanta would be acceptable provided you were willing to live within a reasonable lifestyle.

 

[gsellis]

Other things about Atlanta... I live in Suwanee, which is at 1-2 o'clock on a map of the city, 20 miles out. I am 1.5 hrs from the N. GA mountains. It takes about 3+ hrs to get to the top of Smokey Mtn. National Park. The beach, she is a little far, with 5hrs being the closest. Atlanta is about 3 million in the metro area, which is about a circle 70 miles in diameter. Lowest temps are 5F in the south and 0 in the north. Highs rarely go over 99. Huge club scene in some of the downtown areas.

I live about 5 miles from the new Sage Software headquarters. Scientific Atlanta, Turner (including TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, TCM), Coke, Delta (Delta Technology is the IT ~1300 people), Home Depot (if this is it, ask me first), Federated Systems (IT for Macy's, Rich's), a couple of banks (Sun), Georgia Pacific, and more are in the area.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: BCYL
1) the company will probably get you a TN visa first (which isnt hard, all they need to do is give u a letter saying they hired you and why)... then they will get you rolling through the application for green card... keep in mind, this process will likely take 2 years or more, and during that time you're their b!tch (you cannot leave the company because your visa is tied to them, once you leave theortically you should be deported)...

2) $48k is decent for an area like Atlanta

3) Personally, I wouldn't like to live in Atlanta... I traveled there a few times on business, and I just didn't like the city... Maybe you should go down there for a visit before you make the decision?

Yeah, been there a few times myself. It seems overpopulated, the traffic is AWFUL, it gets too damned hot, and there seems to be a large lower class there (meaning lots of "don't go there" neighborhoods). Don't care for it either.

No worse than any other major US city.

As for the heat...we get the nice side benefit of getting to see beautiful ladies in beautifully revealing sun dresses.

I don't know man, the traffic is often some of the worst I've ever seen, but really only at peak times.

I was speaking more towards the "don't go there" neighborhoods" and not the traffic.

Traffic in Atlanta does suck but you learn how to get around that if you are smart. One of the ways is to live closer to work and/or live in a place where you go against the flow of traffic during rush hour. I've done both and my commute is a leisurely 30 minutes now.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: nitsuj3580

Originally posted by: Rudee
My favorite place in Atlanta is the airport departure gate. God I hated that City.

I hate that airport. Flight was originally deporting from Gate D something but we got there and they changed it. So me and a dozen other people had to sprint back to the train, get off at B, and sprint down to Gate B something which was of course at the very end of the B terminal.

Then you'd hate all airports. That happens everywhere.

When I was in Atlanta airport i found it odd that baggage retreival place was in a central place for all terminals, seemed kinda inefficient to have the baggage place in 1 central place for all airlines/terminals. In software design they recommend things to be distributed , not monolithic, so that you have no single point of failure

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson

Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
According to the Homfair.com international Salary Calculator 48,000 in Atlanta is comparable to making 59,000 in Toronto. It never specifies but I believe both numbers are in US Dollar.

Edit: I would say 99% likely both numbers are US dollars, because when I compare Chicago to London the numbers also look like they would have to be in US Dollars to be accurate.

it's www.homefair.com

That calculator is so far off it's not even funny.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: kalster
When I was in Atlanta airport i found it odd that baggage retreival place was in a central place for all terminals, seemed kinda inefficient to have the baggage place in 1 central place for all airlines/terminals. In software design they recommend things to be distributed , not monolithic, so that you have no single point of failure

But you centralize the user interface.

 

[gsellis]

FTR, it appears he will be working at the King and Queen complex.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: BCYL
1) the company will probably get you a TN visa first (which isnt hard, all they need to do is give u a letter saying they hired you and why)... then they will get you rolling through the application for green card... keep in mind, this process will likely take 2 years or more, and during that time you're their b!tch (you cannot leave the company because your visa is tied to them, once you leave theortically you should be deported)...

2) $48k is decent for an area like Atlanta

3) Personally, I wouldn't like to live in Atlanta... I traveled there a few times on business, and I just didn't like the city... Maybe you should go down there for a visit before you make the decision?

Yeah, been there a few times myself. It seems overpopulated, the traffic is AWFUL, it gets too damned hot, and there seems to be a large lower class there (meaning lots of "don't go there" neighborhoods). Don't care for it either.

No worse than any other major US city.

As for the heat...we get the nice side benefit of getting to see beautiful ladies in beautifully revealing sun dresses.

Yeah, it is a bit worse than other major cities. It reminded me of Detroit with warmer weather

 

[homercles337]

Gooble be ur freind...

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: BCYL
1) the company will probably get you a TN visa first (which isnt hard, all they need to do is give u a letter saying they hired you and why)... then they will get you rolling through the application for green card... keep in mind, this process will likely take 2 years or more, and during that time you're their b!tch (you cannot leave the company because your visa is tied to them, once you leave theortically you should be deported)...

2) $48k is decent for an area like Atlanta

3) Personally, I wouldn't like to live in Atlanta... I traveled there a few times on business, and I just didn't like the city... Maybe you should go down there for a visit before you make the decision?

Yeah, been there a few times myself. It seems overpopulated, the traffic is AWFUL, it gets too damned hot, and there seems to be a large lower class there (meaning lots of "don't go there" neighborhoods). Don't care for it either.

No worse than any other major US city.

As for the heat...we get the nice side benefit of getting to see beautiful ladies in beautifully revealing sun dresses.

Yeah, it is a bit worse than other major cities. It reminded me of Detroit with warmer weather

Heh...I've been to Detroit, LA, DC, Baltimore, and Houston (in terms of major cities). I'll take Atlanta anyday.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: BCYL
1) the company will probably get you a TN visa first (which isnt hard, all they need to do is give u a letter saying they hired you and why)... then they will get you rolling through the application for green card... keep in mind, this process will likely take 2 years or more, and during that time you're their b!tch (you cannot leave the company because your visa is tied to them, once you leave theortically you should be deported)...

2) $48k is decent for an area like Atlanta

3) Personally, I wouldn't like to live in Atlanta... I traveled there a few times on business, and I just didn't like the city... Maybe you should go down there for a visit before you make the decision?

Yeah, been there a few times myself. It seems overpopulated, the traffic is AWFUL, it gets too damned hot, and there seems to be a large lower class there (meaning lots of "don't go there" neighborhoods). Don't care for it either.

No worse than any other major US city.

As for the heat...we get the nice side benefit of getting to see beautiful ladies in beautifully revealing sun dresses.

Yeah, it is a bit worse than other major cities. It reminded me of Detroit with warmer weather

Detroit?? Where exactly in Atlanta did you go?

 

[SearchMaster]

Originally posted by: gsellis
FTR, it appears he will be working at the King and Queen complex.

I worked there about 10 years ago. I rented a nice little 3BR house in Dunwoody about 3 miles away for $650/mo. Traffic in that area can indeed be brutal; there were some Friday afternoons when it could take 45 minutes to make that 3 mile trek.

All in all the area is nice but congested - no bad areas to speak of. I lived in that general area for about 8 years but wanted to have some space.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
According to the Homfair.com international Salary Calculator 48,000 in Atlanta is comparable to making 59,000 in Toronto. It never specifies but I believe both numbers are in US Dollar.

Edit: I would say 99% likely both numbers are US dollars, because when I compare Chicago to London the numbers also look like they would have to be in US Dollars to be accurate.

if you would read the page, it says:

Enter your salary using the currency of the city you are moving from, choose specific cities - "moving from" and "moving to", and click the calculate button.

 

[MixMasterTang]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
According to the Homfair.com international Salary Calculator 48,000 in Atlanta is comparable to making 59,000 in Toronto. It never specifies but I believe both numbers are in US Dollar.

Edit: I would say 99% likely both numbers are US dollars, because when I compare Chicago to London the numbers also look like they would have to be in US Dollars to be accurate.

if you would read the page, it says:

Enter your salary using the currency of the city you are moving from, choose specific cities - "moving from" and "moving to", and click the calculate button.

And where does it say that the city you are moving to will be displayed in the same currency?

 

[bennylong]

$48k is pretty good money for a single person with no family.

 

[bennylong]

Wow...I didn't know cost of living was that high in Atlanta.

$63,000 in Atlanta is equal to $66,000 in San Francisco. WTF?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: bennylong
Wow...I didn't know cost of living was that high in Atlanta.

$63,000 in Atlanta is equal to $66,000 in San Francisco. WTF?

Yep. Property prices in the city of Atlanta itself are really high. In the suburbs, it is much more reasonable.

 

[Ameesh]

living outside of atlanta is much cheaper.

 

[BCYL]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: BCYL
1) the company will probably get you a TN visa first (which isnt hard, all they need to do is give u a letter saying they hired you and why)... then they will get you rolling through the application for green card... keep in mind, this process will likely take 2 years or more, and during that time you're their b!tch (you cannot leave the company because your visa is tied to them, once you leave theortically you should be deported)...

2) $48k is decent for an area like Atlanta

3) Personally, I wouldn't like to live in Atlanta... I traveled there a few times on business, and I just didn't like the city... Maybe you should go down there for a visit before you make the decision?

Yeah, been there a few times myself. It seems overpopulated, the traffic is AWFUL, it gets too damned hot, and there seems to be a large lower class there (meaning lots of "don't go there" neighborhoods). Don't care for it either.

Agreed...

I traveled there for business, and stayed in a hotel downtown... As soon as we leave the hotel for dinner etc, aggressive pan-handlers would be just 1 step short of grabbing you for money... The condition on MARTA doesnt help either...

I have been to San Francisco a number of times too, and even though there are lots of pan-handlers there as well, they are a lot less aggressive...

 

[zixxer]

I live in 'atlanta'. I work in 'atlanta'



That being said - I actually don't live in the city of atlanta, nor do I work in the city of atlanta.

You have to watch out how people here word this stuff. If you work in the middle of atlanta (buckhead, midtown, vinings, etc) $48k is not going to get you far at all unless you can live with >1 hour commute in nearly stopped traffic every day. If your employer will let you work 6-3 or 10-7 then it's a lot better.

I make about that much, I live and work about 15 miles northwest of the "perimeter" (285 is considered the perimeter). I make about what you'd be making and have a 4br/3ba house, a newish truck, two motorcycles.. I live comfortably.

However, if I worked 10 miles further south I'd be looking at an hour+ commute.



Basically - is this actually in atlanta?


EDIT:

okay after seeing you work in the king and queen towers - you are going to have a sh!tty sh!tty commute buddy. I'd factor that in bigtime. If you live in marietta/kennesaw (where I live) you're looking at a ~45 minute commute one-way, at least, assuming no accidents or major backups. $48k isn't enough to buy/rent a nice apartment in atlanta. You'd be good in smyrna if you could find a decent neighborhood.

 

[erub]

I live in Midtown Atlanta, in a brand new building, and I don't come close to spending 48k per year..most people would say a good rule is rent should be no more than 30% of your gross income, so thats $14400 a year or $1200 a month which can you get you a small place in Midtown, or a big place further out or downtown (ghetto)..check craigslist for rental options but you'll probably need to make a trip down here to check out the places

 

[yllus]

Just for the sake of wrapping things up, after talking further with company reps, I'm not going to be taking the position in Atlanta. It'd be a step backwards in terms of responsibilities and amongst other things they mentioned about the position, that's just not something I'd be happy with. Besides, it's going to be an employee's market for a while to come - I'll take a similar offer somewhere down the line.

Thanks to everyone for the information contributed - had no idea it was going to be a popular topic of discussion.