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Old 07-17-2007 | 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Pantera
You will never be able to afford to live there on Comair pay. And what I mean is I call living being able to buy a house and have a life and not have to commute on my days off. Even on captains pay you could not afford to live there.

I call what we can do there is exist. You are just existing there until you can get time or seniority to move on. Can it be done on first year FO pay? Hardly but if you mooch off of family and friends and commute on you days off and crash pad the rest yes you can exist. You do qualify for food stamps and when you buy food in uniform you really get strange looks from the check out girls that probably make twice as much as you do.
Well, I can wait on the house. I live in a one bedroom apartment now and don’t mind it. But of course I do want to be in a safe neighborhood preferably close to the airport. And I like to eat and have my cell phone and broadband internet.
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