Leaving DC for a lower COL area
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Anonymous
There are many DC biglaw partners. More than there are Fortune 500 execs in a midwestern city. There are simply more opportunities here in DC. Which is evident by the higher real estate prices. |
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Exactly.
Only a few are going to get the best gigs with high pay/ low col. Only the smartest and most talented. 
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I don’t understand why people want to say there is no intelligence or wealth outside DC.
It may be best for you to be in DC career wise. There are wealthy educated people acrosss these fifty states. |
Anonymous
I didn’t see anyone disputing that. There’s just a higher concentration of highly educated people here relative to most other places. http://dcrefined.com/city-living/dc-is-second-most-educated-city-in-america |
Anonymous
Sure I don’t doubt that’s true in terms of a metro area. Not sure it’s responsive to the topic |
Anonymous
I doubt that very much but okay 
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Anonymous
huh. So no one in California wants to work for Apple? No one in Silicon Valley cares about Facebook or Google? The pages upon pages upon pages of Amazon HQ 2 posts and speculation right on this website...those were all just people posting from Ohio and Missouri? The kids at Wharton gunning for Goldman Sachs or another big Wall Street Firm- are they all from flyover country? Seeking clarification! |
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crickets. |
Anonymous
Would love to do it. We have Feds who work at home 5x per week. They earn DC salary and live in Colorado, Ohio, PA, and Tennessee. They might come in a few times a year as needed. You can live like royalty on a GS15 or other specialist paygrades in vast swaths of the country. Just need an employer who'll let you telework everyday. |
Anonymous
Nonsense. Right up the road is Delaware. It isn't the sticks at all. There are parts of Delaware where it is actually a shorter drive up to Philly than it is from Baltimore to DC. Philly also has wayyyy better dining than DC. Delaware has much lower taxes and housing costs. Mainline Pennsylvania has beautiful homes and can be much cheaper in many towns than around this area and they have nearly identical politics and even more amenities than what villages around DC have. Right outside of Philly too. You can get crazy homes in a state like DE for what'd you get a crappy fixer upper price here. If i I weren't tied to my jobnid easily move to mainline PA in a heartbeat. |
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Metro Cleveland has over 2 million people, and 3.5 million if you use the Combined Statistical Area definition. Also, Cleveland used to be one of the richest cities in the U.S., which is why some of its long-established institutions have been able to hang on. No knocks on Cleveland from me, but that's hardly typical of most smaller cities in the US. I think it would be better to say that all of these places that pp is familiar with are in big cities. I'm sure pp just define away every exception we come up with, but how about the University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center? According to U.S. News and World Report: "The UAB School of Medicine ranks among the nation’s best medical schools, according to the 2019 U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools Rankings.” It ranked No. 37 in medical primary care, No. 32 in medical research, and No. 15 in obstetrics and gynecology." Or the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Florida? Professional athletes fly in there from all over the country. Or Baylor Scott and White in Temple, Texas? There are excellent hospitals all over this country. And, even if I grant you that most "top research universities" are in cities (which I'm not sure is true), that would be because the cities developed around them. Even as the Texas Capitol, Austin was, for a very long time, a small town. The area boomed because of the University. I also love how you explained away land grant universities as not counting, so you don't have people citing those back at you. So, Ann Arbor, MI, Gainesville, FL, College Station, TX, Troy, NY, Bloomington, IN, Auburn, AL, South Bend, IN, etc etc don't count? |
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The top two hospitals in the United States are in Cleveland and Rochester, MN. #3 is in Baltimore, #5 is in Michigan, #11 is in St. Louis, #12 is in Phoenix, #14 is in Philadelphia, #15 is in Pittsburgh, #17 is in Nashville, and #19 is in Durham.
Whoever said lower COL areas have crappy hospitals has no idea what they are talking about. |
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| Left DC for Florida and it was a huge mistake. COL is lower but the job market is much smaller and lower paying here. I also miss DC's "wonkiness." Florida seems to have a monopoly on stupidity. |
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Nice homes and good schools are hardly cheap in Phoenix, Philly, or Durham. These are still real cities. Not that much cheaper, especially if you want decent neighborhoods |