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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The tough thing is that if both of you are working it will be hard for both of you to advance in your careers in LCOL areas.  If one of you wants to take a step back, fine.  If not, make sure you move to another area that can support two professional careers.  Remote workers are the ones first fired.[/quote]
People don’t advance in their careers in LCOL areas? [/quote]

How many policy analyst positions are you aware of in the Quad Cities of Illinois?  In Wyoming?  Let's not pretend job opportunities in DC specific fields are the same everywhere you go.[/quote]

Not the same. But let’s also not pretend that every good federal gov job is DC specific.

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There are some fed jobs where you HAVE to leave DC to advance (e.g. national park superintendencies). The problem is that once you take one role in e.g. the Ozarks, you either have to stay there until you retire, or move every few years. There are definitely paths outside DC but they're very difficult to follow without uprooting frequently. So there are serious tradeoffs.

Also LCOL is only one aspect of a place. There's everything else, like density, climate, schools, demographics, distance from family, etc etc etc. If I were moving across the country, house size would not be my deciding factor.

OTOH, some of us weighing these kind of moves aren't that concerned with advancing as far as possible. OP wants to get OUT of the rat race. I have a remote GS-13, which is high for my agency but low for DCUM, and unless remote work gets canceled and I have to start adding in 4 hours a day on the train, I see absolutely no reason to advance further in my career. Fed jobs have ceilings so when you have it good, don't ruin that. [/quote]

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