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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1715739" data-attributes="member: 945">Henry, I agree.  That's why I will probably opt for a per diem arrangement, whereby I can "try before I buy".  My wife will remain in KC, and I can get an apt. there for 6-9 months.  I should know whether I like it after the first month or so, and if I totally hate it, I could just bide my time and find something else.  If I really like it, I could have my wife put our house on the market, and then hopefully it would sell by the time our per diem is up.  Meantime, we aren't paying for two places to live.  The benefits do seem comparable.  Matching 401(k), vision, dental, health, AD&D (no, not the game!), even says that exempt employees get overtime pay (which is unheard of!), parking allowance, and relocation expenses.  I'm making ~40 per hour now, so it's not a huge increase, especially considering what the cost of living out there might be.  But it's like I told my wife, because one of her coworkers suggested we go out there and go to a restaurant and grocery store to see what the costs where like.  I told her milk and eggs and things bought off Amazon.com cost the same no matter where you live.  Ok, milk and eggs might be cheaper in Milwaukee than in New York, but probably not by much.  The thing to look at would be housing and taxes.  We'd just have to alter our expectations about the kind of house we had.  If we could do that, I'm sure we would be ok.I also hear there is a rocking ENworld Game day in Richmond. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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