Best Cities To Live Within 2.5-3 Hours Of NYC: Cost Of Living Ratio (housing, income, etc.)
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OP still hasn't posted in the NEPA or Lehigh Valley areas of the PA forum. I'm patiently waiting because NEPA folks will give her an earful of what it's actually like to 1- be a transplant 2- think the grass is greener in PA 3- the absurdity of power commuting 5 days a week.
Sounds like that you have accumulated tons of emotional waste since being hijacked into NYC 6 years ago and finally the pipe erupted and all those negative thoughts broke loose through this thread...
It is clear that you and NYC do not get along, but do not question others who get along fine with NYC at whatever sacrifices they are willing to make while living here.
You're right lol.. And I told my husband over 3 years ago I was ready to leave and didn't want to get to this point. I don't care who wants to live/stay here and pay 4x more to put up with this place.. My best to them lol.. I don't envy them at all. Most people I know that say they love it here still complain but rather be miserable.
It is too bad that too many Americans inherited some outdated negative views on the south. Otherwise there are many lovely options in terms of a combination of affordability, high standard of modern living, hospitality, low crime, and warm weather (for those "cold" folks).
I love the south.. Just compromising with my husband to stay within 3 hours of his family.. Very tight knit but my MIL drives me insane.. So this is like a first step for me to ease him into more moves lol. Probably spend 3 years max in PA and then to warmer places.
We see my in laws DAILY now and are neighbors and his mom is too much in the biz so I compromised with him.. A move 2-3 hours away will allow us to buy a house, have our own space, marriage and family and I told him we can still drive into NYC every other weekend.. Knowing how tired we are with kids I can bet he'll do with just once a month lol..
Then a move to warmer places after this won't be such a big jump. 😉
Meh...I feel like all my advice is going to go to waste...
If you make so much money why are you looking for somewhere so cheap? 300K a year and you're looking at Northeast PA???? You can afford Westchester on that man...even if any of this is even true....the pe0ples' m0d has exposed yet another one....I'll let the forum do with you what they will....have fun guys, I'm giving you all a free night off on her expense:
What's so hard to understand.. I don't want to live anywhere near here? Lol
I love the south.. Just compromising with my husband to stay within 3 hours of his family.. Very tight knit but my MIL drives me insane.. So this is like a first step for me to ease him into more moves lol. Probably spend 3 years max in PA and then to warmer places.
We see my in laws DAILY now and are neighbors and his mom is too much in the biz so I compromised with him.. A move 2-3 hours away will allow us to buy a house, have our own space, marriage and family and I told him we can still drive into NYC every other weekend.. Knowing how tired we are with kids I can bet he'll do with just once a month lol..
Then a move to warmer places after this won't be such a big jump. 😉
Did you post this same scenario about wanting to leave NYC, but your husband being close to his family and his mom and it drove you insane?
Because you're starting to sound awfully familiar. If this is you they removed this thread to the relationship forum last time, which is probably why you now titled it best places to move to within 2-3 hours.
And she still hasn't posted in the PA forums asking about the area. Things can certainly "sound" good but she needs to speak to posters in that area. As I said before, she'll get quite an earful from both sides of the fence.
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Perhaps the real issue is your husbands relationship with his mother and your reaction to/feelings about it. Moving away to another city might not resolve this issue. You need to work that issue out before you move
anywhere.
Find a job in Scranton, PA and then live in the Tafton area(affodable houses) which gets you closer to NYC off of route 84 (then you are still only 2 hours from NYC and 35 iminutes to work in Scranton). And you have all the lakes and parks for fun
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