My OperaUpdating Avatars - 04-13-08
Monday, April 14, 2008 3:01:29 AM
I don't use this blog all that much. It's set up as an example for the CITYzens of CITY-Computers at Yahoo Groups. I was going around updating the avatars I have online. The picture I have been using was taken in 2005 and it doesn't represent me now. Oh I just noticed I got an angry comment on my sharing "California the poorest state". I hate to burst the commentor's bubble but California school systems rank 48th out of 50 in the United States. It isn't the best as the commentor maintained. The article I shared said "when you're poor in California, you're really poor." meaning the price of housing and everything else is so high that getting out of poverty is expecially difficult. There's just too many of us here in California.
I've been to Mississippi, my father was born and died in Mississippi, and sure, he paid $200 a month for a broken down doublewide in Jackson. That's rental in Jackson. A one bedroom here in San Francisco goes for over $1,500, if you can find one. If I lived on a fixed income I'd move to a state where the over all cost of living was less expensive. But then again the hustle potential there is lower in equal portion.
San Francisco used to be a blue collar town, good union town, where working families could find a job that paid a wage that could get the family a rental. Those days are gone. I didn't come up with the stats in that article, silly goose boy. I just shared them. So don't get all high and mighty on my blog, like I care, it took me a year to get around to seeing it.
