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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Providence, RI and have a bunch of friends who moved here from NYC or the Bay area because you can afford to buy a house here.[/quote]

Sounds lovely.  What type of careers do you and most of your friends have?  What kind of industry?[/quote]

Meds and Eds is the quick description for the economy here. I know a bunch of people working in the healthcare sector, some providers and some in management, many people working in higher ed, one fed who works for the EPA out of Boston, a few people working for tech companies that have offices here, one person in biotech. I'm a non-profit fundraiser. I think there's a shortage of engineers and people with the skills to work in advanced manufacturing.[/quote]

And an excess of talented baristas and mixologists with man buns who play banjo and create performance art on the side.[/quote]

Uh. I'm from Rhode Island originally. And there is a world class culinary school in Pvd, plus a top art school - so yeah, there is a good restaurant scene and a good arts scene. Are you suggesting that having food and art is somehow a bad quality in a city?[/quote]

Don't bother.  Southerners generally don't like the north east, and vice versa.  Which is fine, really. [/quote]

The kinds of cities you all are interested in are in the south but honestly not really "full of southerners."  Tons of northern transplants in places like Atlanta, Nashville, etc.  The idea that everyone is going to be a southern debutante like Scarlett O'Hara is wildly inaccurate.  Lots of people from all over come to Emory or Vanderbilt and then stay in the area.  Both are fairly international as well.[/quote]

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