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Old 12-01-2010, 02:55 AM
 
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I guess I'm looking for other people's excuses for not wanting to stay in MD so I can relate and have an understanding that it's not just me. MD does have a good job market. Silver Spring is booming (I know and it was on an article I read). The jobs are there. It's not so bad, but I feel like it's just as a state as Maine. I feel like I just need to be somewhere else. Maybe it's the stress of being in a "job market" state with lots of traffic and people for such a small state.

 
Old 12-01-2010, 02:59 AM
 
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MD/DC area is #1 for house value/job market. Alaska is #2. Wouldn't you rather be in Alaska? I think i would. I've never been there, but I have a clue that it is a prettier state, just cold and dark. It is less congested (big state, little population) and not ghetto (Anchorage is not Baltimore)! You get the point.
 
Old 12-01-2010, 04:46 AM
 
Location: NYC
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I don't blame you for wanting to leave the DC suburbs. My in-laws lived in Anchorage for 10 years and loved it. Keep in mind Alaska is not crime free and not all of Baltimore is ghetto.
 
Old 12-01-2010, 07:54 AM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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To me, the only place in the U.S. that is a clear step up from the Washington, DC - Baltimore area is the New York City metropolitan area. If I could afford to live well there, I'd probably move.

Other than that, I'm just not that impressed with other places when it comes to living (not visiting) compared to Maryland.
 
Old 12-01-2010, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Montgomery Village
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Well if Maryland wasnt in the Top five it wouldn't be a congested now would it? If you take all the jobs away, any place would not be a desirable place to live. Being poor and living in the Tropics is not all its cracked up to be.
 
Old 12-01-2010, 05:06 PM
 
Location: Cumberland
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My family has lived in Western Maryland since it was the frontier. I am not going anywhere. The job and housing market in DC has very little to do with us anyway.
 
Old 12-03-2010, 04:47 AM
 
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I guess I'm looking for other people's excuses for not wanting to stay in MD so I can relate and have an understanding that it's not just me. MD does have a good job market. Silver Spring is booming (I know and it was on an article I read). The jobs are there. It's not so bad, but I feel like it's just as a state as Maine. I feel like I just need to be somewhere else. Maybe it's the stress of being in a "job market" state with lots of traffic and people for such a small state.
Honestly, be thankful you are in such a thriving booming environment. Over here on the shore, jobs couldnt be any more scarce, good paying ones anyway. Somehow ppl here have convinced themselves that living your life paycheck to paycheck is somehow better than dealing with an area that actually has traffic and a strong economy. Hence the reason retirees like it here. They dont need good paying jobs.

The comment about being poor living in the Tropics applies to the shore.
 
Old 12-03-2010, 06:13 AM
 
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I don't blame you for wanting to leave the DC suburbs. My in-laws lived in Anchorage for 10 years and loved it. Keep in mind Alaska is not crime free and not all of Baltimore is ghetto.
Agreed.
 
Old 12-03-2010, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Cumberland
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Honestly, be thankful you are in such a thriving booming environment. Over here on the shore, jobs couldnt be any more scarce, good paying ones anyway. Somehow ppl here have convinced themselves that living your life paycheck to paycheck is somehow better than dealing with an area that actually has traffic and a strong economy. Hence the reason retirees like it here. They dont need good paying jobs.

The comment about being poor living in the Tropics applies to the shore.
Some people value other things more than the size of their paycheck.
 
Old 12-03-2010, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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I may leave after I graduate college. High taxes ain't fun.
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