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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is one thing I don't understand about moving to a lower COL city.  If you move to a "lower" COL city, aren't you still paying same/more for cars, plane tickets, gas, groceries, taxes, refrigerators, movies, clothes?  Does the cheap real estate prices offset all that even with a lower salary?  
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The people that I know that are looking to do this are realistically not going to go from a 150k salary in DC to 100k in Richmond - they keep applying and interviewing for those jobs in those secondary markets and then don't take them. Honestly they will keep hanging on until they get with a DC employer that allows them to live someplace else -- so a fed job that's 5 day/wk work form home w/ the same salary (or minimal salary drop); or something like sales or mgmt. consulting where you can live anywhere bc you're on the road yet you take your home office salary with you. No matter how much they complain, most professionals aren't looking to take gigantic salary steps downward no matter what the COL in another city may be; they're looking to take big city salaries to small town/cities and then live large.[/quote]

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