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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Money?

I feel like this thread is posted on a monthly basis. There's a reason that people put up with living in crowded, high COL places like NYC, Boston, DC, SF etc. -- there are lots of job opportunities and those jobs pay more than the same job in Cleveland (for most industries), if you can even find a job in your exact field in Cleveland. And there's the added plus of if you lose your job or hate your job and want/need to get another one, you'll find another one in aforementioned HCOL big city, whereas in CLE, you may likely have to pick up and move to another city which is no easy feat esp. if you need to sell a home in a rust belt/no growth market.

Now if you're in a field like medicine or teaching or IT, they may not apply to you so go where you please. But for the rest of us, living decisions go hand in hand with working decisions.[/quote]

Right, but then they bitch and moan and bitch and moan and bitch and moan and yearn for the good ol' days in Kalamazoo (now really gone; in reality everyone's a meth addict) where everyone is just so durn friendly.

(Now offense to Kalamazoo... just a stand in for wherever anybody came from...)[/quote]

My theory on this is that a LOT of people in DC are from the Midwest and the south where life is just "easy" -- LCOL; no traffic; generational families so you know not only your neighbors but also their parents. Come to DC where you're dealing with traffic, higher rents/mortgages, people who aren't holding your hand to be nice to you and they are OVERWHELMED by how horrible it is here. I find the ones that complain loudly about DC are people who have never lived in a big city before. OTOH I know people who moved here from NYC who feel like life here is a vacation. Others who moved from NJ or CT or Boston who don't think it's expensive or congested at all bc their hometowns are like this. [/quote]

And some of us transplants just think DC land sucks! But we're here for a spouse's career, so here is where we are for now.[/quote]

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