NYC vs San Diego vs Boston (best, cost, better, place)
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-- An active/healthy lifestyle: access to the beach, biking paths, and other outdoors activities.
-- Culture and diversity: areas where you can have a virtual immersion experience with a different language, culture, and food (e.g. such as found in areas of Brooklyn, NY).
-- A large number of educated people.
-- Professional/interesting career opportunities.
-- Good nightlife and dating scene.
-- Strong small–business community.
-- Work–life balance.
-- Weather that supports outdoors activities.
-- Ability to be, at least mostly, car independent.
-- Ability to support a middle class lifestyle (e.g. a decent income–to–COL ratio).
Details:
-- A Boston native, thinking of going to grad school in one of these cities (for business/accounting).
-- Would be working and going to school at the same time (most programs cost about $20k of debt...no undergraduate debt).
-- An active/healthy lifestyle: access to the beach, biking paths, and other outdoors activities.
-- Culture and diversity: areas where you can have a virtual immersion experience with a different language, culture, and food (e.g. such as found in areas of Brooklyn, NY).
-- A large number of educated people.
-- Professional/interesting career opportunities.
-- Good nightlife and dating scene.
-- Strong small–business community.
-- Work–life balance.
-- Weather that supports outdoors activities.
-- Ability to be, at least mostly, car independent.
-- Ability to support a middle class lifestyle (e.g. a decent income–to–COL ratio).
Details:
-- A Boston native, thinking of going to grad school in one of these cities (for business/accounting).
-- Would be working and going to school at the same time (most programs cost about $20k of debt...no undergraduate debt).
I think you should go to the best school for the best price.
That said, I'd say Boston or NYC will meet your requirement to be car free. San Diego will not...I say this as a California native.
If you want urban and less car dependent you'd have to look at San Francisco (or Los Angeles). LA is far less car dependent than San Diego and its rail network is getting better all the time. But looks like those Calif. cities are not on your list.
Breaking_Good is right. Apply to 10 schools, meet the faculty and admissions folks, make them love you, and go to the best school that offers you the most assistance. Get the best degree you can for the lowest price you can. The city should be an afterthought.
-- My undergraduate performance (in mathematics) was quite strong; I got into all eight of the grad schools to which I applied (for accounting). However, money is an issue, and I'm trying to weight the tradeoffs of prestige/network/education to debt.
-- Also, I was able to finish my undergraduate degree with zero debt (accomplishing this was very difficult, and is something I am quite proud of). For these reasons, I am not eager to take on a ton of debt in grad school.
-- I'm interested in RE investment, but would like to get an accounting background first (for the general business and tax knowledge, and for the financial security – since RE can be so volatile).
-- I have a good shot at getting into a program such as the Master of Finance at MIT, but doing so would put me $80-100k in debt – and, I'm simply not sure if its worth it, or if it would even help me get into RE investment more quickly/efficiently.
-- Staying in Boston (UMass) would be the cheapest option, but the quality of the education would be much lower than at, say, Baruch College (in NYC).
-- Baruch College offers what appears to be an incredible accounting program (both in education and placement); the COA would be approximately $10-15k higher. I would have to find work in the city to help support myself while in school, and I'm not sure what type of income I could expect to earn, or how difficult it would be to find work. NYC, I've heard, can be rough for people at the lower income levels.
-- California is appealing (for the obvious reasons of weather, natural environment, and laid–back culture/lifestyle), but I've decided to stay in the Northeast for now.
Given these details, what advice do you have? Thanks!
New York City: For people who want to make a career and be close to the center of everything
Boston: A very large college city
San Diego: For chilling out
I chose NYC because I didn't read the question first...but would have chosen San Diego if I had. That said, NYC is still the best city on this list.
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