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I regret to inform you that Teh Woods have been rezoned as a conservation unit .  The construction and occupation of free-standing dwellings (“cabins”) will no longer be permitted without a Special Use Authorization.
 
Please fill out forms CUC-14-BDL-1177 and CUC-14-1170 in triplicate and return them to the planning and permitting office to a…[Read more]

Amen. Moving is no fun… I wouldn’t mind a diesel truck with an airstream on the back… just keep moving… but packing, unpacking, getting settled, getting unsettled, packing, moving, repeat… no thanks. It’s not healthy for plants and it’s not healthy for humans…

much like this…?

Have you looked into the Austin Planning firm  opportunity that is listed on Cyburbia ?  I have seen your posts there before so you probably are well aware of it.
 
I appreciate your viewpoint, but I far older than you, have limited options and this is my only opportunity at present. I have done little networking.

Just give me a cabin in the woods and let everyone fight over the shards of civilization… you can have it.

No advice on the offer itself, but you are at a perfect time in life to do this.  It will never be as easy as it is for you right now to pick up and live in another place. 
I lived and worked in another country for a year (Europe, not Asia) in my early 20’s.  It not only gave me an insight into another culture, it let me step out of my own.  Both…[Read more]

Good luck with whatever you decide! And when you are in a position to hire, call us! 😉 I might be joking…I am not sure I am ready for China. 😀

Oh dear.

Note to self: Public employees pay taxes…and in many states are not allowed to collect social security which saves tax payers the fees the state would otherwise pay into the system.
And most of them do contribute to their pensions. I am sorry you are having such a hard time Thomas but you are going after the wrong people. Which is of…[Read more]

first – I pay into retirement, and social security. I will probably have paid for you when you are destitute, laying in the street, and get the social security check at the po box you have registered. Second, the state retirement is not enough to live on, and I am 54 and have three years under my belt..do the numbers..
the private sector gets…[Read more]

So why should those who serve the citizens have it better than the citizens they serve? Why should they have better job security? Why shouldn’t they have to contribute to their health care and retirement like everyone else? Why should they be sheltered from the kind of job competition that people in the private sector face every day?
 
With more…[Read more]

Your part of yourself is saying the same thing another part of myself is saying. I completely agree with the views of your other part also. As to your last question…. see my last response in this string. Your right about the imposition of Southern California residential architecture and master planned cloned communities there. There is a real…[Read more]

Thank you for your comments.  I will not be spending a whole lot of coin to get there and I will be paid fairly well. I am glad I am not dragged down by the leg-iron an underwater house represents to most that own one right now. They give you a four month trial run because the work pace is supposedly 2 to 3 times that of a US office (straight f…[Read more]

So why should those who serve the citizens have it better than the citizens they serve? Why should they have better job security? Why shouldn’t they have to contribute to their health care and retirement like everyone else? Why should they be sheltered from the kind of job competition that people in the private sector face every day?
And to say…[Read more]

I would look at it as an adventure…unless you are leaving a family behind…which doesn’t sound like it? What is making you hesitant? Are you spending a lot of money to get there? Are you trying to sell your house? I would not do it if it is going to cost you more financially then it would to stay here…if that makes sense.

Well and aside from wages…they collective bargaining deals with a wide array of things. I have children in public school…collective bargaining allows the teachers to have a say in class size and other classroom conditions that are very important to my children’s education. In Idaho our superintendent has an on-line degree from Thomas Jefferson…[Read more]

So I take it you support this scenario?
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/madisonworld-a-future-whe_b_834381.html

Part of me says, “as long as you come back home with more money than when you left, it’s a win.”
Another part of me says, “Screw China. Why are we continuing to kowtow to a country that is systematically conquering the United States (and the rest of the world) without firing a single shot. They own our debt, they own our petroleum production, they…[Read more]

Wow, I think I hit the hornets nest!
In all serious though…Thomas J. you hit on it when you said this:
If it is the governments job to look after the best interest of the people, why do we need an extremely expensive, seedy, organization to do the same thing?
Now the question I would ask you is this. Do you feel that the government is working in…[Read more]

Not to mention working conditions…remember the Tiangle Shirtwaste Factory Fire?  Have you ever read Upton Sinclair?  The Jungle?  Dickens?
 
Looking back at relatively recent history, we have so many reasons to unite.  I’m a fan of capitalism, but unchecked, corporations only have one thing at heart…to make money.  Not to ensure life, liber…[Read more]