All things being equal... would you go back??? (Atlanta: find a job, neighborhoods)

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by kayrob

Obviously not based on much. Don't believe everything you hear.

I saw New Jersey once when I was five or six. We went swimming at a beach,
but that's all I remember. Oh, and it had a fence. Do you know the place?

[kayrob]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

I saw New Jersey once when I was five or six. We went swimming at a beach,
but that's all I remember. Oh, and it had a fence. Do you know the place?

Born and raised and lived there all my life until March, so yeah I know it a little.

[Mamato3BB's]

Originally Posted by NorthmeetsSouth

Let's say you can get the same house for the same price in NY, NJ, Cal, Minn, or whereever you came from. Would you be here or there?

I, for one, would be in Westchester in NY.

I would be back 'home' in Bloomington, MN. I like Atlanta alright, but there is something about where you grew up that is just more comfortable, for me at least. True there is wayyyy too much snow but I actually miss it. There is something totally unnatural about it being 70 degrees in October! lol

[dncngrl1964]

Originally Posted by Mamato3BB's

I would be back 'home' in Bloomington, MN. I like Atlanta alright, but there is something about where you grew up that is just more comfortable, for me at least. True there is wayyyy too much snow but I actually miss it. There is something totally unnatural about it being 70 degrees in October! lol

Scrape your freezer and be happy

[Georgia]

Originally Posted by Mamato3BB's

I would be back 'home' in Bloomington, MN. I like Atlanta alright, but there is something about where you grew up that is just more comfortable, for me at least. True there is wayyyy too much snow but I actually miss it. There is something totally unnatural about it being 70 degrees in October! lol

Yeah! Kinda like walking around town in shorts and flip flops in January.
Yes, I think it is warm enough here for shorts and flip flops in January.

Regards,

Polar E. Bear

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by Georgia

Yeah! Kinda like walking around town in shorts and flip flops in January.
Yes, I think it is warm enough here for shorts and flip flops in January.

No question. I wear shorts and a tee shirt all year round down here, much to the amusement of our neighbors, though I will admit that my toes get chilly in the winter (I don't wear flipflops at all).

[gnatty8]

We would move back to New Hampshire in a heartbeat all else equal. I would take a 30% cut in pay to do it too.

[brookdaleresident]

As a landlord in NY you might as well adopt your deadbeat tenant because all of the laws protect them, not you. As a landlord down here, if someone doesn't pay its relatively easy to get rid of them.

I've done evictions in NY and NJ. You're right about NY. In NJ, it's the total opposite. You can get a tenant owing only a month's rent if you time it right.

[DoveDiva]

Originally Posted by NorthmeetsSouth

I have read ( and made) many comments on this forum regarding people's reasons for coming to and staying in Atlanta. Some enjoy it here, and some feel they could buy a better lifestyle here.
If the price of a house was the same here as where you moved from, would you have moved here in the first place? and, would you still be here?
For instance, you can buy a nice 4 BR house in Cobb county for under $300,000. Let's say you can get the same house for the same price in NY, NJ, Cal, Minn, or whereever you came from. Would you be here or there?

I, for one, would be in Westchester in NY.

No.

I refuse to raise a child in South Florida.

[Calcbunny]

Originally Posted by Georgia

I came here due to transfer, but if all things were equal and our NE office opened back up, I would be in S.Jersey.

Me too! I do Miss NJ..