Originally Posted by
NowCorporate
I see, you dont even live/work in the US or raise your family here?
I don't see many G550 SoCal jobs that offer military housing.....so, in all due respect, no need to get USMCFlyers opinion on that for this topic...and again, to each his own but most of us dont want to raise on family in an apartment, even if the Europeans do.
Well if you are going to try and invoke military housing into the equation
You must be thinking of the 1950s military if you think even a small minority of military officers living in the SoCal area are living in military housing. MOST military officers and their families are living out in town AT ALL military bases below the Grapevine (we'll keep this conversation geographical). They would get a basic allowance for housing, which included with other military compensation still would not come near to equaling the compensation packages that seem to be the target of this thread.
There is no need to get my opinion on that - I stated it earlier in another post. There are THOUSANDS of military families living, working, and building a life in SoCal that are doing all of the things mentioned in this thread who are not making (alone or with a dual income) near the amount of salary previously discussed here. Personally - I chose to offer myself to the Harrier Gods when I selected for community rather than live in SoCal (Orange County at El Toro for the Marines at the time). I spent my whole career avoiding California altogether until the last 4 years when I eventually found myself in CENTRAL CA - a whole different world away from SoCal! Only in those last two years (and the 6 months after retirement) did I find myself living in San Diego and as I stated earlier, I never gave a second thought to actually settling down there for a variety of reasons.
USMCFLYR