Move to fly over country for job?

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Anonymous wrote:Unless you felt like a fish out of water in NYC I would predict a bumpy transition.

There are lots of folks who have lived all over the place reading posts like yours; if you could name the location you're considering you may find more specific helpful advice.

That is an inaccurate statement and an ignorant "generality".

I was born and raised in DC, and have always loved NYC specifically because of the hustle and bustle. Then DH got a job in one of those "flyover cities" that everyone around here loves to hate... ....and not only was the transition very easy but we acclimated very quickly and fell in love with the place. We made great friends, life was slower, our money went much further and our taxes were way lower. Than DH got a big promotion with that same company that required a move back to DC. At first we thought it would be easy to come back because it was so familiar to us, and its where we were from, friends and family there etc. Wrong answer. We lasted 2 years in DC after our 5 year stint in that "flyover city" because we got a taste of what it was like to live in such a wonderful, calm and inviting place. After 2 years we sold the DC house, changed jobs and moved back.

+1 much rather hang out with my Wisconsin friends than rail thin NWDC lawyer mom agonizing over whether Sidwell or GDS would be more likely to get her snowflake into Harvard...

+10000 Wisconsin friends or my sister's friends in St. Paul. G_d, I wish I could....

There are really people like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the year 2016. I just don't get how people in DC or NYC think that they spend their time doing more interesting, intellectual, and cultural things than people who live in the Midwest. What do people in DC do? They go to work as doctors, lawyers, engineers, plumbers, teachers, lobbyists, politicians, fire fighters. They go out to eat at fancy restaurants, fast food joints, they buy organic from Whole Foods, or put canned food in a crock pot. They go to the movies, shopping, plays, concerts, bars drinking. They shuttle their kids to a hundred activities or they worry about how they will pay for college. They have intellectual conversations or really stupid ones. They surf the Internet. They exercise and run marathons or they sit on the couch every night. They watch hundreds of hours of television or they read millions of books. People in the Midwest do the exact same things every single day.

They are seriously deficient of the "snot factor" in the Midwest. That's the difference.

[Anonymous]

No, I hate flyover country. No coincidence that flyover has lower real estate prices... cause it's shitty and everyone knows it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I hate flyover country. No coincidence that flyover has lower real estate prices... cause it's shitty and everyone knows it.

Seriously. These are the people voting for Trump.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is the year 2016. I just don't get how people in DC or NYC think that they spend their time doing more interesting, intellectual, and cultural things than people who live in the Midwest. What do people in DC do? They go to work as doctors, lawyers, engineers, plumbers, teachers, lobbyists, politicians, fire fighters. They go out to eat at fancy restaurants, fast food joints, they buy organic from Whole Foods, or put canned food in a crock pot. They go to the movies, shopping, plays, concerts, bars drinking. They shuttle their kids to a hundred activities or they worry about how they will pay for college. They have intellectual conversations or really stupid ones. They surf the Internet. They exercise and run marathons or they sit on the couch every night. They watch hundreds of hours of television or they read millions of books. People in the Midwest do the exact same things every single day.

They are seriously deficient of the "snot factor" in the Midwest. That's the difference.

Nobody is saying they don't do these things but when you are in an area where freaking 90% of the people grew up there, it's not a good deal because you are an outsider.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, I hate flyover country. No coincidence that flyover has lower real estate prices... cause it's shitty and everyone knows it.

Seriously. These are the people voting for Trump.

Wisconsin chose Obama even with Ryan being from there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the year 2016. I just don't get how people in DC or NYC think that they spend their time doing more interesting, intellectual, and cultural things than people who live in the Midwest. What do people in DC do? They go to work as doctors, lawyers, engineers, plumbers, teachers, lobbyists, politicians, fire fighters. They go out to eat at fancy restaurants, fast food joints, they buy organic from Whole Foods, or put canned food in a crock pot. They go to the movies, shopping, plays, concerts, bars drinking. They shuttle their kids to a hundred activities or they worry about how they will pay for college. They have intellectual conversations or really stupid ones. They surf the Internet. They exercise and run marathons or they sit on the couch every night. They watch hundreds of hours of television or they read millions of books. People in the Midwest do the exact same things every single day.

They are seriously deficient of the "snot factor" in the Midwest. That's the difference.

Nobody is saying they don't do these things but when you are in an area where freaking 90% of the people grew up there, it's not a good deal because you are an outsider.

That could be said for many places. I went to college in Boston and years later many, many people when I see them at reunions eventually ended up back from where they came from even if they had lived all over the country for a while. They ended up back in their hometowns from LA to Miami to St Louis to Chicago to Milwaukee to Burlington to New Orleans to Philly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks pp... iPhone one handed typing on listserve is not on my resume as a skill. You got me. I missed that course at Yale.

Defensive much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I hate flyover country. No coincidence that flyover has lower real estate prices... cause it's shitty and everyone knows it.

Seriously. These are the people voting for Trump.

Wisconsin chose Obama even with Ryan being from there.

Ryan didn't even win his own county!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I hate flyover country. No coincidence that flyover has lower real estate prices... cause it's shitty and everyone knows it.[/quote


You've made the PP's point about preferring her Wisconsin friends quite well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I hate flyover country. No coincidence that flyover has lower real estate prices... cause it's shitty and everyone knows it.[/quote


You've made the PP's point about preferring her Wisconsin friends quite well.

+100.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks pp... iPhone one handed typing on listserve is not on my resume as a skill. You got me. I missed that course at Yale.

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Can't blame the iPhone on was vs. were.

Yale? Hahaha. Sure.

Actually, I had an assistant that went to Yale, and it doesn't surprise me.

[Anonymous]

OP, did you make the move? I'm considering a job in Milwaukee. searched the archives and found this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless you felt like a fish out of water in NYC I would predict a bumpy transition.

There are lots of folks who have lived all over the place reading posts like yours; if you could name the location you're considering you may find more specific helpful advice.

That is an inaccurate statement and an ignorant "generality".

I was born and raised in DC, and have always loved NYC specifically because of the hustle and bustle. Then DH got a job in one of those "flyover cities" that everyone around here loves to hate... ....and not only was the transition very easy but we acclimated very quickly and fell in love with the place. We made great friends, life was slower, our money went much further and our taxes were way lower. Than DH got a big promotion with that same company that required a move back to DC. At first we thought it would be easy to come back because it was so familiar to us, and its where we were from, friends and family there etc. Wrong answer. We lasted 2 years in DC after our 5 year stint in that "flyover city" because we got a taste of what it was like to live in such a wonderful, calm and inviting place. After 2 years we sold the DC house, changed jobs and moved back.

+1 much rather hang out with my Wisconsin friends than rail thin NWDC lawyer mom agonizing over whether Sidwell or GDS would be more likely to get her snowflake into Harvard...

NP.So what ? I'd rather hang out with rail thin lawyer mom in DC who probably knows where Namibia is on the works map , unlike the oversized khaki pants wearing midwestern mom

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