Opinions Of Texas Not Making Top Ten Wealthiest States List (Houston: house, school)

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by TXNGL

Not at all. Look at Hawaii with around 61,000. Living in Hawaii is ungodly expensive. If I were looking at the same job in Hawaii and Texas, I'd surely hope that the job paid better in Hawaii!

I have been to hawaii twice and would factor it out as a desirable place for a home solely because you can't rent a u-haul and haul all of your property to some other state.

there's a big wide ocean stopping you from doing that........

[busterkeaton]

So what. I betcha they don't know about H.L. Hunt and how he was the richest dude in the world living in east Dallas. If you don't believe me ask Lakewooder!

[jek74]

That list is meaningless without adjusting for cost of living. All those eastern states are almost 2 to 1 in terms of cost of living over TX. I have friends that make 75k in NY that live in a 800 sq foot apt in Brooklyn with 4 roommates and no car and a mountain of debt. That same income in Houston will get you a 3500 sq foot home in the Woodlands with 2 cars in the driveway and enough disposable income to fly to Europe twice a year. Just sayin...

[TXNGL]

Originally Posted by Howest2008

I have been to hawaii twice and would factor it out as a desirable place for a home solely because you can't rent a u-haul and haul all of your property to some other state.

there's a big wide ocean stopping you from doing that........

I've been to Hawaii but I also have friends from there. It's beautiful but they choose to stay here because of expense.

Adding: there is a poverty there that tourists, for the most part, don't see.

[hsw]

Census is clueless about actual incomes, let alone "wealth"

IRS has official/claimed income data, but is also clueless about "wealth"

Income (or nominal wealth) doesn't translate to standard of living

Manhattan's UES and 15CPW (and, less so, Greenwich/ShortHills/Scarsdale) have some of highest median incomes in world but NYC region standard of living is vastly exceeded by those of same (or much less) income in places like SiliconValley (Woodside region) or LA's Westside (BH) or Dallas (HP)

Need to consider region's available high-income careers; cost of new housing and land in desirable parts of any region; ability to drive everywhere quickly in own new car; decent grocery stores/restaurants; decent public schools, etc etc for those who earn $100K/yr or $200K/yr or >$1MM/yr (and ability of smart 20yo kids (who don't have a rich daddy to help 'em) to rapidly escalate through income scales reveals true power of any region's economy)

On such metrics, places like Manhattan (or "desirable" NYC suburbs) entail quite ThirdWorld-like stds of living, even for billionaires, let alone for worker bees....and places like SV/BH/HP offer some of world's highest stds of living as well as dramatic upward mobility for the most productive kids

[TheOverdog]

ability to drive everywhere quickly in own new car; decent public schools

While I mostly sort of agree with your post, the necessity of a car is a sign of a medium to low overall quality of life in my opinion and the sad fact is that wealthy people don't care about public schools- their kids go to private or exclusive boarding schools. If they did care, then inner city schools near wealthy areas wouldn't be as bad as they are.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by Howest2008

The United States Census Bureau has compiled it's list of top 10 wealthiest states and the state of Texas was absent from this list . Does this in any way dampen Texas spirit as being one of the most dominate state in the United States of America.

Top Ten Wealthiest States Listing
Top 10 Wealthiest States in America | Personal Blog

Texas has some of the wealthiest neighborhoods & zip codes in America.

Your blog is bogus.

List of highest-income places in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[diablo234]

While Texas has a few rich areas such as the North Dallas suburbs, Sugarland, The Woodlands, etc it also has many poor areas such as the Rio Grande Valley where the per capita income is one of the lowest in the US. So naturally the average will be lower than states such as New Jersey or Maryland where there is much less income variations.

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Texas has some of the wealthiest neighborhoods & zip codes in America.

Your blog is bogus.

List of highest-income places in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Texas isn't a top ten state as far as wealth is concerned

[Bily Lovec]

Originally Posted by Howest2008

Texas isn't a top ten state as far as wealth is concerned

do you realize how stupid that article sounds ?

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there is no place in the country I could do what I do and make the $$ I make that I do in Houston.



if your only purpose is to come here and try to make Texan feel bad about where they live, you're failing massively.