RE: * Oracle DBA position available in AL...

        Forget all that! Come to the UK! We've got rain, tea and Tony Blair!

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From: Ruth Gramolini [mailto:rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us] Sent: 10 Feb 2005 15:50
To: davewendelken_at_earthlink.net; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: * Oracle DBA position available in AL...

Hey, I resemble that remark. I work for the State of Vermont and VT is not a cheap place to live. I have had my job for 7 years and don't make the top starting salary offered for this job. That's just the way it is here. It work here because I want to live here. I wouldn't live in Alabama if you melted me and poured my in there so I work for slave wages here.

Ruth

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of david wendelken
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:26 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: * Oracle DBA position available in AL...

>It is funny that because an area has a low cost of living that they may
>offer a lower salary. In many cases the areas with low costs of living
>are areas that (a) most people would not want to live in and (b) don't
>have a lot of qualified candidates locally. It would seem this would
>demand a higher than average salary not the opposite.

You obviously don't understand the market dynamics.

What they want is someone who wants to live there, because someone who wants to live there will be happy with any vaguely decent paying job. Shucks, they'll be happy with a *job*.

That's how it really works.

Lived there, done that.

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