Dave Karoly, PLS
12-07-2003, 10:11 AM
There is an advertisement on this board for what I will call a professional-level job for a licensed land surveyor at a Santa Barbara area engineering firm. I will presume they pay such a person very well but likely not a million dollars per year.
This raises the question of how does such a firm attract personnel to their location when the cost of housing is very high? It may be that there is still a pool of candidates who have lived in the area and are established in the real estate market but that pool will be shrinking in the coming years due to retirement.
I don't mean to specifically single out Santa Barbara and acknowledge this problem occurs in many other areas in this state. My region is well on its way to becoming just such an area. I occasionally travel to Santa Barbara and looked in one of the Real Estate magazines found in the hotel lobby and noticed a house and lot similar to what I own in Sacramento was listed for several times what mine is currently worth. This in conjunction with the job ad raised the question in my mind.
This raises the question of how does such a firm attract personnel to their location when the cost of housing is very high? It may be that there is still a pool of candidates who have lived in the area and are established in the real estate market but that pool will be shrinking in the coming years due to retirement.
I don't mean to specifically single out Santa Barbara and acknowledge this problem occurs in many other areas in this state. My region is well on its way to becoming just such an area. I occasionally travel to Santa Barbara and looked in one of the Real Estate magazines found in the hotel lobby and noticed a house and lot similar to what I own in Sacramento was listed for several times what mine is currently worth. This in conjunction with the job ad raised the question in my mind.