“好钱”在十大彩票网赌平台走得更远

When I was growing up in a small town, I often heard about people moving off to bigger cities in order to ‘make good money.’ The conventional wisdom was that you could either enjoy the wonderful quality of life in a sparsely populated community or earn a big paycheck in Atlanta or Birmingham or Jacksonville. 我们中的许多人从小就相信，我们的成年生活需要在两者之间做出痛苦的权衡。

That early experience is one of the reasons I was very happy to see that Santa Rosa now ranks fifth among Florida’s counties in terms of both median income and purchasing power, according to SmartAsset.

The median income is the middle – the number with exactly as many people making more and less than that. 购买力将收入中位数与必需商品和服务的平均价格进行比较。 我们在这两者之间的比率比佛罗里达州的其他四个县（以及美国的150个县）都要好。

That means we’ve been successful at growing and recruiting high-paying jobs to the community, and we’ve done it without making it too expensive for families to live here. 收入的增长在不牺牲生活质量的情况下提高了我们的生活水平。

That’s a huge win, especially when you compare Santa Rosa to some of the places where people typically go to ‘make good money.’

亚特兰大是一个很好的起点。 虽然他们的年收入中位数略高（69000美元比我们的67000美元），但生活成本会抵消这一差距，甚至更多。 In fact, you’ll spend an extra $6,000 per year on living expenses – about three times the additional money you earn.

Also, the cost of living doesn’t fully factor in some intangibles like commute times. Sure, it may calculate cost of the extra gas you’ll use, but most of us don’t get paid extra for the time we spend getting to and from work. If you spend an extra hour a day commuting – a conservative estimate, by the way – that equates to about 10 more full, 24-hour days of your life spent in traffic.

停下来想一想，如果你在你的车里呆10天，远离你的朋友和爱人，有人会付你多少钱？ 一千美元？ 五千年? 10 ?

当然，远程工作已经缓解了一些压力，在亚特兰大、华盛顿特区和其他主要城市及其周边地区有很多很棒的事情要做。 尽管如此，开车的日子还是很长。 And even those who use public transportation must often drive to get to it – which is like being punished twice for the same crime, in my view.

我的观点很简单，大城市可能提供更高的薪水，但我们大多数人真正追求的是价值。 我们在哪里可以赚到大钱，并让它走得更远？ 在这方面，十大彩票网赌平台有很多值得骄傲和感激的地方。

We’re growing salaries year-over-year, but we’ve held on to the low cost of living and better quality of life that make us all want to stay.