The Salary Calculator

Must be calculator night....Here's a salary calculator to calculate the cost of living elsewhere. How much or how little one would need to get a change of scenery, whether permanent or temporarily. For example, if I make $100,000 in Concord, New Hampshire, and wanted to move to Stuart, Florida, I'd only need to make $93,133 to maintain my lifestyle. But I'd only need $83,428 to live in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, ya'll.

http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html

Cost of Living Calculator

When you want to know how much $100 in 1913 would be worth today, the American Institute for Economic Research has a nifty Cost of Living Calculator on its website. The answer to the question is $1,945.45.

The calculator begins at 1913 and goes through 2005. You can compare different years. Say you wanted to know what $100 in 1913 was worth in 2000 ($1,739.39), you can compare that way or the opposite way - $100 in 2000 was worth $5.75 in 1913.


http://www.aier.org/colcalc.html

Free? Public Records Or A Fee Site in Disguise?

One of my very favorite *free* sites for accessing public records online used to be searchsystems.net until, that is, they put a delay on retrieving the URL for their directory items. Now, one must wait 20 seconds per link to get to the *free* content as this company is advertising their subscription service. It is an annoying amount of time to say the least and makes one wonder why this once "world class" directory has gone over to the dark side.

I exchanged some emails with the Searchsystems CEO over this issue. He was polite and said that they have lots of broken links daily and it takes two people to keep the links from rotting. Plus, other sites ripped off his content and made pay sites that passed through to his free link content. It's all about the bottom line, evidently.

I'm off to search for a replacement public records site that really is *free* and not a complete time waster.