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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the Minneapolis suburbs, where you can live a really nice quality of life (beautiful new home, great vacations, etc) without a huge income.

Now that I live in DC, I see so many friends who grew up UMC (with their dad working as a federal government attorney and their mom as a SAHM!)  Now, it takes two incomes to get something even approaching the lifestyle they had growing up.

DC is so expensive!  I like living here (and we have good HHI), but it does make me cringe to see so many people eeking by, when they could be living large elsewhere.  There are a lot of other good places to live in the US.[/quote]

I love the way people are always like, "Just move! You could be living so much better elsewhere!" without regard for the fact that a lot of people live in DC, not because they love the high COLA, but because their industry is based here and moving would require switching industries, passing another bar, getting re-licensed, etc.  My job exists around major urban centers - there is no market for what I do in Minneapolis (nor do I want to freeze my tail off, if I did, I'd have moved to Canada long ago).  Nearly everyone I know in my field who's moved away from DC, NY, Chicago, etc. has gone somewhere that there were one to three employers in the field, and when they got laid off, finding another job, even one not as lucrative, was very difficult.  At least two are now doing remote consulting work for DC-based companies - for decent pay, but having to pay your own taxes and benefits.

And it's eking (from eke, not eek).  Eek what the fainthearted say when they see a rodent.[/quote]

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