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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][youtube][quote=Anonymous]I get paid 260k here salary.

Similar job but different company offering me 460k salary but I would have to move to nyc

Bonuses are 100k-200k. 100k here. 200k possibly nyc but bonuses are never guaranteed.

Should I consider moving there? Middle and high school age kids here. [/quote]
I would move. No hesitation. You have an opportunity to almost double your pay and you aren’t going for it? Your current pay is low. 
I bet that this job also offers more opportunities to grow. In a few years, you may be at 600k, 700k. 
Your kids will hate you when they learn that you turned down an opportunity to get the family out of “poverty”. Ok, 260k is not poverty, but it’s not much here in the DMV.[/quote]

Shaddup. It’s not poverty or even nearly poverty. So out of touch. I went to college in nyc, and think it could be fun to live there with teens/tweens, but we have a nice house in DC, and would be trading it for a tiny apartment, so I’d be disinclined to move. I grew up in the Hudson valley. I wouldn’t live there and commute. Probably westchester, and that’s worse/more snobby than DC. I’d consider NJ, but how is that better? Never ever Long Island. 
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Are you OP? I'm not the PP, but I have a little insight that may help you. I've raised my DCs in Manhattan, but admittedly with much more money at my disposal. However, when my DCs were in 4th and 8th grades we did briefly and seriously consider moving to the suburbs. If my DCs were younger, I likely would have chosen that route . . . but I was worried about my older DC, who would be starting high school as the "new kid" in a school full of DCs who already had long-established relationships. Mind you that she would be a "new kid" in NYC because she was attending a K-8, but she would be among a large cohort of DCs in similar circumstances.

A chat with a realtor mom at an open house in Summit is what ultimately sealed my decision to stay in the city. She was extremely nice, but it was clear to me that the social hierarchy among families in the community was already set in stone, and it would be hard for us to break in with older children even though we had friends in town. We had a great and supportive community in the city, and we ultimately decided it was not worth trading for a yard and bigger closets.

I don't regret my decision nearly a decade later. I realize that you have bigger stakes in your decision, but if you're having doubts do not discount how difficult it may be for your family to break into social circles that have been well-established and tend to be insular.[/quote]

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