(Sep 9, 2020 07:27 PM)Yazata Wrote: 11:30 AM - This photo captures how dark it was at its peak, about 10:30 AM this morning. It's gotten brighter since, but the sky is still that bright orange Martian color.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/...f=1&nofb=1
AFAIK, Ray Bradbury had lived in California since he was 14, and is buried there. So he's
very happy about the Martian sky.
(Sep 9, 2020 06:51 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [...] some of my family members are trying to convince me to move to Oklahoma. [...]
What is it with the chronic connection between those two? Is half the current population of the Golden State descended from the Great Exodus and parting of the waters that the
Joads family were part of, as they made their way to the Land of Milk and Honey?
Risky. I've heard rumors that it's dangerous to move directly from California to Oklahoma without any years spent in between. The shock from the drop in cost of living triggers cardiac conditions or something. Or maybe it's the drop in pay. When all is considered though, the costs are probably still less.
Leaving Oklahoma City to San Francisco, with respect to a person with a $60,000 income:
San Francisco, CA is 99.9% higher than in Oklahoma City, OK. You would have to earn a salary of $119,946 to maintain your current standard of living.
Moving from San Francisco to Oklahoma City:
Employers in San Francisco, CA typically pay 36.8% more than employers in Oklahoma City, OK.
But the higher wages
and more are gobbled-up by the lofty expenses and taxes of Baghdad by the Bay.
EDIT: Hmm... Shifting from cities to the average incomes of residents in mundane counties or areas of California, though, they seem within the same range as their counterparts in Oklahoma. Question is, do they still get zonked with the higher expenses even living out in the hinterlands of the Bear state?