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You may think it's a ridiculous comparison, but here's why this one differs: YOU WON'T HAVE TO WORK IN EITHER. You get a $200,000 salary every year and you can spend your days doing whatever you want.
NYC:
+ Larger
+ 4 Seasons
+ More diverse in terms of culture, art, people etc
+ Closer to Europe
+ Never get bored or out of opportunities
- Lot of traffic and stress
Las Vegas:
+ Smaller
+ Warmer weather and more sun
+ Great nightlife and entertainment for its size (almost as good as NYC)
+ Closer to Asia, California & Hawaii
+ You have amazing nature just 20+ minutes from the city (for hiking, skiing etc)
+ No income taxes (saves you about $10-15k per year compared to NYC)
- A lot of transplants, harder to make long term friends
- Because it is smaller, you may get bored after X amount of years
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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For me, NYC. And NYC is the only city in this country I would live in East of the Rockies. Wouldn't even live in Boston to show how much I dislike the east and the south, and I grew up in NY.
There is no place east of the Mississippi worth living. Fact of life.
I was born in Manhattan and have years there. And a couple of decades upstate with a family summer home in Montauk.
If you have the right job it is a wonderful place and you should go there in a minute. Same is true of upstate, of Minneapolis of SF of Seattle of LA. But once you make your nut. Get out to someplace livable...Like Las Vegas.
NY has nothing like the strip though overall it has more great restaurants and more great theaters and all that. But you can't handle that in a single life time and Las Vegas has enough.
It is kind of an odd comparison, but these are actually two of my favorite places in America. I do live in NYC and love it but have considered the thought of living in Vegas as well.
Nightlife + going out is a really important part of my life right now. I have had some of the best clubbing experiences of my life in Vegas, but if I lived there I probably would start hating the strip kind of like how I got a little tired of the Meatpacking district in NYC after a while.
But I also love the desert. Idk there's just something about it that fascinates me. I love the natural scenery around the Vegas area. We just don't have anything like it back in NYC or the East coast in general. I also don't like cold weather, but love the heat, especially the dry heat. I'm also jealous of the insanely low cost of living in Vegas too.
But as much as I love Vegas, I can't live there. I'm a city person and I think I might get bored living in vegas after a while. It's also too far from the ocean for me. It'll just have to remain a place that I love to visit. I'm actually in the process of planning another trip back!
NYC. I'd be very happy taking several trips to Vegas, maybe spend a month or so there. Obviously I could do the reverse as well and save some money, but I'd much prefer 11 months in NYC and 1 month in LV than 11 in LV and 1 in NYC.
There is no place east of the Mississippi worth living. Fact of life.
I was born in Manhattan and have years there. And a couple of decades upstate with a family summer home in Montauk.
If you have the right job it is a wonderful place and you should go there in a minute. Same is true of upstate, of Minneapolis of SF of Seattle of LA. But once you make your nut. Get out to someplace livable...Like Las Vegas.
NY has nothing like the strip though overall it has more great restaurants and more great theaters and all that. But you can't handle that in a single life time and Las Vegas has enough.
Woah, good thing you don't live on the East coast these days! It's a wonderful place. Not Vegas...but the East coast. Totally livable. For the most part nothing on the West is appealing.
New York by 2,000 miles. Vegas is pretty terrible.
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