If you have to move out NYC,where 'd you go?

[initialsbb]

I hear you loud and clear. I've been here 10 years, and am so defeated over how much I have watched this city chance in the past 5 years or so (rental market, "luxury," etc...) that I am considering a move... when I thought I would never leave this city!

Places I have looked into: San Fransisco and Honolulu. I like them both, but think that Hawaii is for me.

Good luck to you.

[jeffcon0]

If I could find work in my field I would look in Philadelphia were I to move out of NYC. With my work being closely tied to the finance industry, though, the only other places I could resonably find work would be Boston and Chicago. Both are very nice cities and I would not hesitate to live in either one but I don't plan on moving out of NY anytime soon.

[Diggur]

I've lived in NYC for over a decade, and both love and hate things about it. My biggest issue with the city is the cut throat business world. You learn fast to never trust anyone if you want to keep your job. The weather sucks unless it's Fall time, especially since most people depend on the subways and buses, and when it's freezing cold and you have to wait for a train, you dream of sunny warm weather elsewhere.
You live your life like a hiker wearing your backpack wherever you go, and probably walk about a mile or more day from all the climbing up and down subway stations steps and walking block after endless block to and from work.
The up side is the culture can't be matched to anywhere else. But even that can get played out after awhile. Especially when you learn that whatever color, culture or background a person is, they are all the same. Or I should say, have the same human nature, and most people suck once you really get to know them. In a place like NYC, people learn fast not to have time for anyone else. In other words, most fall prey to having to be an ******* to survive.
As far as the Midwest, specifically Milwaukee and Chicago, people are nicer, but there seems to be a little more segregation, similar to Los Angeles.
The west coast, specifically L.A., can be the same, except more on the boring side and you have to live in your car 1/2 the time since it's all about driving there.
San Diego is nice, but not a lot of industry and job opportunities of course.
I think my next move will be San Francisco. I'll let you know how that goes!

[CNG]

If I had to, I would go to Oneida, Utica, NY. It has generally colder weather (I'm a big fan of snow), many of my family members are there, along with many friends I've met over there. Althoug it's generally not an exciting place, there are still many friends I know there to make up for it. Also I wouldn't mind working for Centro...

[DITC]

Originally Posted by tullio

hello,

Originally from Italy,

I ve been living in NYC for the past 5 yeas with ups
and downs, but lately I realized my level of
unhappiness has grown bigger and bigger.....

I enjoyed when I first come here, the energy, the great
transportation, the diversity, good business oportunities,

but

I just don't enjoy it anymore:
-i dont enjoy the dark icy winter, super hot summers,
-taking the subway with breath-coffee-smelling people steering at you,

- potencially very unsafe, even if Ny had rated one of the safest city
people are not what they call "nice", make an eye contact with
the wrong person and you easili hear "f*** are u looking at"

-its super fast and stressful, very competitive, on friday I am
dead tired and all I want to do is go to sleep
-all people care about is money, no space for feelings here
its very matherialistic

- but most of everything i dont enjoy the relationships,
everyone is freaken busy, you have to make an
appointment 2 weeks before,
" i call you back" and you hear from them a month later,
you can feel lonely like a DOG,

I always realised from turist I met , people coming from
out the city are nicer, than here........


I have to ask is someone had moved out and how was their
experience, where they relocated and if they are happy now.

I enjoy space, the sun, water and where people are
not so busy and matherialistic,
and, of course, the chance to find a job and make a kiving;

(I am an accountant and trilingual italian-english-spanish)

your answer will be appreciated a lot

thanks

I personally would go straight to Milan or Rome if I had my choice. The happiest people I have ever met are the ones I know living in Italy. You being from Italy, I would highly recommend returning home. The lifestyle is much healthier there. Accounting jobs can be had anywhere. There are friendly people in New York, but you wont find many in Manhattan. The unfriendly, "I'll call you back" and they never call happens everywhere.

Da dove sei in Italia? Dove vivi a NY?

[NJ Chutzpah]

Try going to one of those fleeting italian neighborhoods like morris park, howard beach, Lyndhurst, NJ or Cliffside Park, NJ. It has lots of Italian-Americans, but Italian Americans are still more italian, than your average manhattanite these days.

I guess you feel like Furio Giunta

[arussell]

Left NYC for Charlotte eight months ago after living there for 40 years. I have no regrets and kick myself for not moving sooner. The grass is not always greener though, it all depend on what you hope to get out of the move. I could name the negatives in NC, just like I could NYC, but the positives here outweigh them all. Housing, weather, hospitality and a great job.

Good luck with your decisions!