Strawman. Housing costs is but
one cost of living. I suggest something akin to
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/movecalc.asp or
http://www.cityrating.com/costofliving.asp or
http://www.bestplaces.net/col/col.aspx or
http://www.coli.org/compare.asp or
http://www.monstermoving.monster.com/Find_...elosmart/rs.asp or
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costoflivin...stofliving.html
Run any of them, and it's roughly 7% less from PIT to Mobile. I'm sure CCY is much more (in the sense that the cost of living drops like a rock).
Most of those are based on data from the American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association (accra.org) and not simply realtors who are trying to sell you a house.
Also, you assume that the mortgage and/or rent is enough of the chunk of the average income to be the sole determining factor. After this round of concessions, you need to account for healthcare and other short/long term disability insurance and any number of other things.
But since the myth that it's cheapter in MOB than INT or PIT and one can eat a 25%+ paycut and maintain the standard of living has been debunked, let's look at why they really should move the whole thing to MOB--nobody would follow, absent a paid move.
Now, it's titanically stupid to have a single call center for a corporation who needs a call center for much of it's customer interaction. Dumb. If I tried it (my little division of my little company will do 3 billion in revenue and probably net 180 million on that) I'd be hung from the nearest tree. They are talking about work-at-home, which, if done properly, could erase the need to
care about where people actually are. Even that is screwed up--they look to be requiring you to be within striking distance of your workplace--as if people who have been on the job for 15+ years cannot figure out how to adapt to procedural changes by reading about it.
In (not so) short, all of the moving and closing things for unionized employees is meant to force people out the door, not produce any meaningful cost advantages. All of the folks in CCY should be whacked due to performance, not due to the cost of rent in CCY.
