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Originally Posted by Apache
Because the cost of living is higher in large metropolitan areas, wages are usually higher in those areas. A jewelry chain that also leased the jewelry space in department store in New York and New Jersey agreed to take over the leases in a department store chain in the Midwest. They wanted some of their managers and assistant managers to transfer out there. When they found out how much houses and rentals were in the Midwest most wanted to go. Then they found out that they would be taking a pay cut commensurate with the cost of living they all refused. This was in the late 1980's.
Apache
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Sadly something of the inverse is happening in my province. It advertised itself as a
good place to work from home (despite the lack of high-speed internet if you go 20 minutes out of town
). Now people are coming to one of the poorest provinces with Ontario and B.C. incomes and driving up the house prices.