Reply to Would you move to nyc for 200k more in salary?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Would you move to nyc for 200k more in salary?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked in NYC 30 years. Not a SINGLE executive ever paid private schools.

I grew up Great Neck with an award winning HS with a 25 commute to Manhattan, later loved by Rockville Centre another award winning school around 35 minutes from nyc.

My house in Great Neck was a 2-3 minute walk from train. I could be in Manhattan under 30 minutes from my living room chair.

I also when single lived by Douglaston train,

All execs lived close in towns near train in surburbs with great schools.

NJ has lots of same.

Plus my one rich boss who lived in Garden City also had a house in Southampton an easy commute to summer house. 
[/quote]

Nowhere near executive rank and plenty of my non executive friends do privates, including a government couple GS12-13 economist, a teacher + government contractor couple (2 kids at Potomac), a fintech director + HF analyst couple. By my generation a job is part of overall wealth and we don’t feel we need to skimp on certain experiences bc some executive from 1990s did things their way.[/quote]

That’s DC. My public HS growing up on Long Island was rated best HS in United States among public and privates. Except for Catholic and Yeshiva in rich NYC suburbs the schools are way better privates, the rich on Long Island don’t do private. They buy buy in Manhasset, garden City, etc [/quote]

The actual rich in NYC still have a large number that live in Manhattan and go to private school. What industry were these "executives" in?[/quote]

We also have mid-tier privates in northern Westchester priced 20k to 40k. My kid is friends with some of them. the typical family is a director level worker with pharma/finance/engineering + a wfh lawyer/wfh medical biller / nurse practitioner. Some of the kids are dance artists that require specialized schedule. [/quote]

I’m sure you can find private schools to throw you money at any place. The point is that the NYC suburbs are packed with very affluent people sending their kids to public schools. It is very normal.

I have a small sample size but the people  I know in NYC sending kids to private are doing it either because they are WASPs who chose to live in Manhattan and culturally believe in privates (but are not really richer than those in the burbs) and/or their kids aren’t smart enough to get into the top test in schools. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics