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No logical person would choose to live in Mississippi over Boston or NY.
It's not a matter of logic when subjectivity is a higher tier opinion. Either region will do for anyone based on their lifestyle and/or career. I'd prefer people to add value to their locations regardless it's a highly populated urban area or chill small town.
No logical person would choose to live in Mississippi over Boston or NY.
You would if you couldn’t afford Boston or New York. New Yorker mathjak refers to it as “moving to Cheapsville”. It’s totally rational. Millions of low net worth retirees make the exodus because they’re priced out of the housing. It’s also totally rational if you lack the 21st century job skills to command the wages necessary to afford the housing on the Northeast Corridor.
You would if you couldn’t afford Boston or New York. New Yorker mathjak refers to it as “moving to Cheapsville”. It’s totally rational. Millions of low net worth retirees make the exodus because they’re priced out of the housing. It’s also totally rational if you lack the 21st century job skills to command the wages necessary to afford the housing on the Northeast Corridor.
Beyond that, there are people with all the money and skills to go wherever they want and still choose to live or stay in places like Mississippi. Maybe it's their home state or maybe they're trying to avoid the rat race and pretentiousness of large northeastern cities.
Having grown up in neighboring eastern Arkansas I can assure you that many stick around.
I know of people who went to New York and D.C. early on in their careers only to come back. Not because of finances, but because they didn't like it. The ones who went out west to California tended to stay out there longer.
You would if you couldn’t afford Boston or New York. New Yorker mathjak refers to it as “moving to Cheapsville”. It’s totally rational. Millions of low net worth retirees make the exodus because they’re priced out of the housing. It’s also totally rational if you lack the 21st century job skills to command the wages necessary to afford the housing on the Northeast Corridor.
That's quite an obviously elitist way to look at it, and also logically flawed.
The Northeast still retains plenty of low-income households, especially when adjusted for COL. There are still plenty of lower-wage service workers in the Boston and New York metro areas, despite being constantly dismissed and overlooked.
There may be a somewhat higher concentration of "21st Century job skills" in the Northeast compared to the South, but certainly not anywhere near to the extent that explains the dramatic difference in housing costs. It's 2022, not 1950.
Jobs requiring "21st Century skills" are literally scattered across the US, even moreso now with the trend of remote work, which will likely only increase over time.
That's quite an obviously elitist way to look at it, and also logically flawed.
The Northeast still retains plenty of low-income households, especially when adjusted for COL. There are still plenty of lower-wage service workers in the Boston and New York metro areas, despite being constantly dismissed and overlooked.
There may be a somewhat higher concentration of "21st Century job skills" in the Northeast compared to the South, but certainly not anywhere near to the extent that explains the dramatic difference in housing costs. It's 2022, not 1950.
Jobs requiring "21st Century skills" are literally scattered across the US, even moreso now with the trend of remote work, which will likely only increase over time.
Yea Geoff’s comment was inappropriate but honestly that mindset is typically of the wealthier and elitist households in Eastern MA. It’s what prevents practical solutions to that regions biggest problems. That trademark MA arrogance/obliviousness is always embarrassing. For people who think like that, brutal class division and classism is a point of pride not something to be remedied
I'm sorry I had to laugh at this... "Southern Charm!"... Atlanta!...? I've never heard that before. I live in Atlanta and sometimes I have a hard time finding southerners.
Most Atlanta residents I have encounter were full of Southern charm. Granted, they were African-Americans. Can't speak on the white residents as much.
Unpopular opinion: southern charm makes routine tans and interactions tiresome and honestly-annoying. Just don’t talk to me.
If we’re at a bar or social event- cool, let’s talk but even in baltimore I get tired of people trying to make jokes at the mall about “what does the DQ stand for?? *eagerly awaits my response ” when I’m waiting in line at Orange Julius/DQ or people along me about my favorite season sing while I’m in line at aldi. It happens wayy too much.
Dawg, I’m tired and my breath stinks- leave me alone.
Yea Geoff’s comment was inappropriate but honestly that mindset is typically of the wealthier and elitist households in Eastern MA. It’s what prevents practical solutions to that regions biggest problems. That trademark MA arrogance/obliviousness is always embarrassing. For people who think like that, brutal class division and classism is a point of pride not something to be remedied
Definitely agree. Astronomical living costs have revoltingly become a point of pride for some people, especially those who benefit financially from it at the expense of others who literally can't even afford a simple roof over their head.
This super gross attitude of "let the 'poor' people (in reality, middle-class) leave; they were worthless anyway" will lead to the eventual stagnation and decline of any city that embraces it. Mark my words.
NYC and San Francisco are "canaries in the coal mine" in that regard, but I digress.
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