If you want a regular job, the area around Huntsville, Alabama is exploding right now with Auto Industry, the expansion of Federal Government type jobs, Contractor work of all kinds, and a huge amount of tech sector and engineering jobs. They are also planning a major infrastructure overhaul in the area, which is more future right now than reality. Huntsville is also one of the first cities to receive the new super high-speed Internet service and the outlying area has some of the lowest cost-of-living rates in the Country.
But if you have an initial investment and work at it full time a person could potentially make a good living on Steemit, or, if the new Scorum version of Graphene (The basis for Steem) works out you could do well on that sports platform. If my calculations were close to correct, then a $60-70 investment in Scorum (SCR) at $1.00 each would be about the same as a $1000 initial investment in Steem when it was at $1.00. I have been encouraging my son and his wife to open up an account on Scorum and be ready to start a sports blog with unique photos as soon as the site officially launches, I believe that those who get there first, like the pioneers on Steemit, will have the potential for good incomes. Scorum will not launch U.S. Sports until this Fall, but that does not mean that a person has to wait until then to get established on that platform.
Is it going to compete with Steemit? I'll have to do some research into that. If it's a crypto investment I can transfer some Steem I've built up to invest in that. I just don't want to start spreading my efforts too thin between multiple platforms again. It's like I might be getting a little traction on here, despite the last couple days of quite on my account, and I want to try and keep that going. Suddenly jumping to another place, it's like being at zero again. I'm at that point where I need something, like now. I don't mind building towards a future, but the now is my imperative...
Thanks for dropping by with some useful info :) It's much appreciated!
Scorum will not be in direct competition with Steemit because it is specifically a sports platform. Actually, they support Steemit and they plan to give some free tokens to any member of Steemit who joins Scorum. I would not recommend selling Steem for SCR tokens, you would be trading something that you know to have value and a platform where you have already made progress toward becoming established, to an unknown new platform where you would be starting over at the beginning. The point that I was trying to make is that a small investment in SCR now, could in a years time or less be worth as much as a large investment now is on Steem. A $10 investment on Scorum today, next year might correlate to what it would cost you $270 to currently buy in Steem Power. But that will only be true if Scorum succeeds in their goals for the future, and those goals are not projected to be fully complete until October of 2018. Of course, by then it would cost you a lot more money to raise the same amount of Scorum Power that you can right now in these early but uncertain beginnings. 😎
Actually, you can not even buy SCR tokens at the moment, they will be on the Openledger and Bitshares exchanges sometime in March.
Sounds interesting. But, when I took a look at it I realized it's a sports dedicated platform...and, I'm not a sports person. Maybe as a long term investment. And, looks like the opening rounds of funding are close, so like @deaconlee said, gotta wait until they're on the exchange. But, still might be an interesting investment. Have to look through the white paper and stuff :)