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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all about perspective and where you're coming from. Lots of NYC friends have opted out of the NYC/North Jersey/Long Island/CT madness and have settled here in DC and LOVE the cost of living, esp. real estate. But then I know DC folks who are moving off to Houston bc the DC COL is too much and they can get more house in Texas.[/quote]

That's my husband, a NY to DC transplant.[/quote]

+1.[/quote]

Us, too. I miss how a lot of people I knew in NJ were somehow both high achieving and very unpretentious and down-to-earth, whereas in DC lots of people get pretentious at much lower levels of wealth and success and stressed out by what seem like smaller work issues. That said, our quality of life is much better here because work hours just aren't as crazy when the regional standard is set by Feds as when a lot of people's idea of hard work means I-banker hours. Even the same law firms in NYC and DC can have very different work cultures between the two offices even though pay is usually the same. It doesn't hurt that taxes are lower here, neither of us is stuck inhaling highway fumes in traffic on a driving commute, and we get to benefit from lots of free and accessible cultural opportunities in DC that would add another line item to our budget in NYC. [/quote]

Curious as to where in NJ you lived. I grew up in a  NYC suburb of NJ & there were tons of pretentious people.[/quote]

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