On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 5:52:09 PM UTC-5, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:18:13 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 2:25:17 PM UTC-5, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:32:39 -0700, la llorona > wrote:
> >>
> >> >jmcquown wrote:
> >> >> On 12/24/2015 1:14 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >> >>> On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 03:42:08 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> >> >>> > wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at 10:43:26 PM UTC-5, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> $10/hr for minimum wage entry level jobs for a person with minimal
> >> >>>>> education and no skills is darn good money... how much would you pay
> >> >>>>> for someone to sweep your floors, dust your shelves, and retrieve
> >> >>>>> shopping carts...
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I pay my housecleaner about $40 per hour.
> >>
> >> If I were paid $40/hr to clean a house I'd bust my butt to make it
> >> spotless, I'd even work overtime for straight pay; I'd launder
> >> clothes, detail your car, scrub bathrooms, I'd even clean your cat's
> >> litter pans and cook for you too, same as everything I do at home, for
> >> $40/hr I'd mow your lawn and trim m'lady's bush! LOL
> >> Around here people get paid between $10-$15 an hour to clean house.
> >
> >Prices for everything are much higher here, including housecleaning.
> >The average price per square foot of single-family housing in Ann Arbor
> >is $180. How does that compare with your area?
>
> That's ludicrous, the price of real estate has absolutely nothing to
> do with the pay rate for house cleaning.

The price of real estate is a reflection of the cost of living, which
is an indicator of wages.

> I can assure you the price
> of real estate in NY is substantially higher than in MI... why would
> anyone want to move to MI anyway, there's nothing there but a lot of
> desolate nothingness... I wouldn't live in MI if someone gave me a
> house for free including a house cleaner... she'd need to have the
> most magnificent mammaries to attract me to live in that wilderness.

Good. We don't want you here. You're far too provincial.

Cindy Hamilton