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Location: Prince Georges County, MD (formerly Long Island, NY)
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Originally Posted by bubbathedog
I forget where I read the survey (either marketwatch or businessinsider.com) but New York was on the list of 10 most expensive places to live (no kidding). It was #2, right behind Hawaii. They made the point the salaries are somewhat higher than the nation average, but the cost of living is so HIGH, the salary differential was not great enough to make a dent.
To clarify, by New York, they were referring to metro NY, including NYC, LI, parts of NJ and Westchester. As they say, escape while you still can.
Two years of posting the same drivel-- have you left?
Location: Prince Georges County, MD (formerly Long Island, NY)
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Originally Posted by mowmylawn
No less than the two years of your drivel. Hope you've left.
Unlike many of the posters here who endlessly complain but do nothing about it, I decided to better my life and move to a city I've dreamed of moving to since high school.
....With each visit, it seems nothing really improves, it only decays.
If I were to sum-up my observations of the place, after 39 years in NY.....that would be it!
Funny- I was away for a year once, and came back- and it was pure culture shock- I was ready to turn right around and leave immediately. Now I've been away for 13 years. Could you imagine what it would look like to me now?! (Between being used to a sane life 1000 miles away; and having had 13 years to decay even further!)
Everyone is free to dislike it here and that's fine but there are a lot of places that have nothing close to what we have here. I love that the beach is 10min away, mall is 15mins, restaurants & bars I enjoy are in walking distance. I spent a lil time upstate and in NC and to get to a beach or mall was a like an hour drive. I love the abundance of everything in close proximity and I'm willing to pay more for it.
Of course the bigger factor is that all my family is here.
I live on the other side of Wasatch, at about 5400 ft above sea level. No inversions there.
But, hilariously, he "slips" time and time again and admits living on LI. Here's just one example -- this post about school budget voting made in 5/2014:
When I voted in my district it was 8:30 PM. Most of the pages in the voter's record were blank of signatures. For some crazy reason, very few seem to vote.
I would imagine it's required voting of teacher's union members, administrators and probably others sympathetic to scam.
The truth? He once lived in SLC for a very short time, a couple of decades ago:
Everyone is free to dislike it here and that's fine but there are a lot of places that have nothing close to what we have here. I love that the beach is 10min away, mall is 15mins, restaurants & bars I enjoy are in walking distance. I spent a lil time upstate and in NC and to get to a beach or mall was a like an hour drive. I love the abundance of everything in close proximity and I'm willing to pay more for it.
Of course the bigger factor is that all my family is here.
My wife and kids moved upstate (suburban Buffalo) last week. She found a job immediately, paying the same wage as in LI! Much less traffic, aggrevation and our town beach right on Lake Erie is 5 minutes from where our new home will be. Mall-5 minutes away, Wegmans-5 minutes away, Bills Stadium-5 minutes away, Downtown/Elmwood Village cultural district 15 minutes away, skiing 30 minutes away. Cost of home -1/3 of the cost as my home in Nassau County, twice the size and 1/2 the taxes!
I'm still down here in Long Island, waiting for my house to sell, can't wait to leave!
And by the way I love snow and I WONT let the door hit my a** on the way out! AND I don't want to hear the negative crap Long Islanders always have to say about upstate, especially about Western New York. So happy to be rid of the high cost, attitude, hot tempers, elitism and other garbage on this overcrowded sandbar!
Everyone is free to dislike it here and that's fine but there are a lot of places that have nothing close to what we have here. I love that the beach is 10min away, mall is 15mins, restaurants & bars I enjoy are in walking distance. I spent a lil time upstate and in NC and to get to a beach or mall was a like an hour drive. I love the abundance of everything in close proximity and I'm willing to pay more for it.
Of course the bigger factor is that all my family is here.
And you are single with no kids, so you don't understand the tremendous pressure that middle class parents with children are under here.
Sure, when I was single this place was a breeze but things change with time.
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