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I think it is very interesting how people pay 10 times the price for a home in San Francisco than Wichita when a vast majority of people's lives is consuming nearly universally available media and sleeping.
When ever I am in a big city, I wonder where the excitement is as a vast majority of people are staring at a device most of the time.
Interesting the premium pay to be on the internet in Culver City or Newport Beach as opposed to Wichita or Grand Forks.
I think it is very interesting how people pay 10 times the price for a home in San Francisco than Wichita when a vast majority of people's lives is consuming nearly universally available media and sleeping.
When ever I am in a big city, I wonder where the excitement is as a vast majority of people are staring at a device most of the time.
Interesting the premium pay to be on the internet in Culver City or Newport Beach as opposed to Wichita or Grand Forks.
Bragging rights.
A lot of people who live in the inner core live there so they can brag about living there. (No, not all)
OP, I cannot tell you how many people over the years that I've had conversations with either in real life or on forums etc. where they complain about living in a high cost of living area with a brutal commute and how they have no free time and no spare money to do anything since their starter home was 700k.
You mention that the Midwest is in general cheaper and then out comes the stereotypes with things like "Well I'm a liberal would I be able to make any friends?", or that they don't go to church = no friends blah blah blah which is so silly I won't even bother to discuss further.
Then I typically hear how they would miss the "night life" or the "restaurants" which they can almost never afford or have time to enjoy...along with missing "the ocean" which is 2 hours drive away for them and they go maybe twice a year.
In fairness, I used to live in Chicago and also hear people from less urban areas ask how dangerous it is. It isn't but again, misinformation and myth runs rampant.
I 100% support people to make their own personal choices I just feel that people that have always lived in a certain area often just don't know what they're talking about with regards to other parts of the country.
But hey, that's their call, me personally I enjoy not having my paycheck devoured by housing costs and enjoyed the TWO EXTRA HOURS each day not spent commuting. I've lived in towns\metros of 5,000 and then 200k or so then 10mil or so and now about 1mil+ so that's my diversity of experience but I realize many others may have other factors that they value more than me and that doesn't make my or their opinion on the matter any more right or wrong.
I think it is very interesting how people pay 10 times the price for a home in San Francisco than Wichita when a vast majority of people's lives is consuming nearly universally available media and sleeping.
When ever I am in a big city, I wonder where the excitement is as a vast majority of people are staring at a device most of the time.
Interesting the premium pay to be on the internet in Culver City or Newport Beach as opposed to Wichita or Grand Forks.
Jobs are in big cities the distribution is not equal.
I think it is very interesting how people pay 10 times the price for a home in San Francisco than Wichita when a vast majority of people's lives is consuming nearly universally available media and sleeping.
When ever I am in a big city, I wonder where the excitement is as a vast majority of people are staring at a device most of the time.
Interesting the premium pay to be on the internet in Culver City or Newport Beach as opposed to Wichita or Grand Forks.
I have wondered that as well. Most people spend most of their waking hours at work anyway.
A cube farm in San Francisco isn't much different than a cube farm in Des Moines, Iowa or Ho Ho Kus, New Jersey.
A cube farm in San Francisco isn't much different than a cube farm in Des Moines, Iowa or Ho Ho Kus, New Jersey.
Yet the variety and quantity of jobs is not evenly disbursed.
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