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Sat Jul 18, 2015, 04:09 PMVictor_c3 (1,477 posts) Looking for a liberal bastion to move toI'm 35 years old, married, and have 2 young children - aged 4 and 6. I received word yesterday that I've been approved for Social Security Disability. In the last couple of months I've also received approvals for disability programs from the Department of Veterans Affairs and my former employer. So, all said and done, I'm going to be making more on disability for the rest of my life than I was working as a GS-12 Chemist for the federal government. I currently live in an extremely expensive part of the country (I'm just outside of NYC). I'll have no problems maintaining my current standard of living, but my income is the same regardless of where I live, but if I can find a perfect place to live that is a little cheaper I'll be able to really live life and have plenty of extra income to do whatever I want to. The only problem is that it seems all of the best liberal bastions in the north-east are in areas that are much colder than I would like to live. Ithaca, NY is about as far north (I.e cold) as we'd like to tolerate. Burlington, VT would be perfect but it really is too cold for my wife there. What my wife and I would really like is a place that around 20,000-ish people were the people are friendly, the public schools are good, typically isn't one of the coldest spots in the U.S., very liberal and vegetarian friendly, and where you can spend less than $275,000 for a 4 bedroom and 1900+ SQFT on at least an half acre or more of land. Any ideas where we could find a spot like this that is in the north east preferably between Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018782068Just how much is this bum getting from all these federal programs?https://www.federalpay.org/jobs/1320-chemistry
Response to Victor_c3 (Original post)Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:33 PMdemmiblue (6,642 posts) 21. In my state (Michigan), I would recommend Ann Arbor.Very liberal, culturally diverse, a lot of parks/recreational opportunities, veg friendly, good public transportation, university town, etc. It is bigger and colder than what you are looking for, though.
What my wife and I would really like is a place that around 20,000-ish people were the people are friendly, the public schools are good, typically isn't one of the coldest spots in the U.S
I'll bet the big guy in Bellevue's green with envy, apoplexic with envy.
GS 12 base pay is $61,486. I reckon he's probably a Step 3, so say $65,586. You get 40% of your base pay if you go out on medical disability, so $26,234. You can keep your health insurance and have the premiums taken out of your pay, so with a family and BCBS Fed about $420 a month for a family. Brings his take home to $1766 a month which is subject to taxes.He say "disability programs from the VA" so is he a veteran? Otherwise, the disability I've described is the only program the VA offers. Plus, the SSI may very well be reduced due to his medical retirement from federal service under the Offset. He's going to buy a 274k house? I guess the wife will be carrying him the rest of his life. Or the DUmmie is lying.
I'll have no problems maintaining my current standard of living,
I hear that its pretty inexpensive to live in Chernobyl.