Just wondering whether anyone has gone down the path of leaving behind their big city New York/London/etc and moving to have a quieter job and lifestyle (perhaps still in finance/the corporate world) but in a smaller place? If yes, how has that worked out for you?
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I work in STEM and due to the amount of foreign nationals, defense companies usually located away from major metro areas will fight for any US citizen with anything higher than a bachelors degree.
Owning a big house and having a shit ton of kids is obviously easier in an LCOL area but the sad truth is many of those areas are kinda depressing nowadays. Also, everyone knows that my partner is from a country that we don’t have the best relations with…. So if my clearance is revoked… I’m in trouble
Thankfully I’m still in school so I’ll have some time to make up my mind!
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I live in a LCOL city and miss NYC. I’m here because of family and would rather be in NYC.
I started my career in a big city, then left to move back to a smaller scale with LCOL, and then returned to the big city life elsewhere.
Yup. Nyc to a flyover state. I actually got a pay raise to move to a spot with a low cost of living. Bought a big house on the lake and can’t say I miss much about nyc other than some close friends and the ease of getting good food.
It's all I ever think about. NYC is depressing.
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I think the stages generally tend to be:
It’s pretty natural to go through stages 1 and 2, but Lots of people don’t graduate from 2 to 3, which is the tough part. But NYC undoubtedly has better opportunities than anywhere else to do so. However, I totally understand people for leaving if their careers stagnate out at $200k-$400k mid level jobs. That’s still a lot of money, but just not really the amount of money in NYC that allows for a lifestyle most of us dream of. And the things you loved about the city when you were 25 aren’t the things you want to be enjoying at 35, so it loses some of its appeal (though the issue with food being shit in most other non large cities is a real one, and I say that as someone who grew up in a poor rural part of the country and has spent many years in flyover states).
My advice, if you can see the path to 3, then stick it out long enough to figure out if you’re going to make it. Then make the decision. But moving prematurely as a younger professional closes off a lot of doors that may otherwise open here.
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Chicago -> midsized Southern town -> big Southern city -> NYC
I left Chicago saying I really needed to get out of the city, do some hiking, but now I realize that I was just feeling restless and didn’t actually want to be somewhere quiet and slow. Thought maybe one of the high growth, low cost of living cities would be a good middle ground, and it was comfortable, but honestly I missed the energy and opportunity of a major city.
That time, I didn’t feel strongly enough to leave without good reason, but when a higher paying job with better trajectory came along in New York I decided to roll the dice again. I might just have a case of grass is always greener syndrome, but honestly I finally feel like I love where I live and don’t see myself leaving again (I never felt that way about the other moves).
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