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Thats what happens when you live in a city with a ~48% effective tax rate, astronomical cost of living and poop out babies.

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Dudes brother is skimping him huh

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This guy is a retard. $350K is damn plenty to live in NYC if you don't crap out a tribe of kids and have a stay at home wife. Let this be a lesson to all of you who want to live in NY and have a family.

 

Also, gotta love how half his rightful earnings go to taxes. Nothing like a strong disincentive to motivate someone to move. Honestly, NYC with a family and kids is miserable.

 
ANTAlso, gotta love how half his rightful earnings go to taxes. Nothing like a strong disincentive to motivate someone to move. Honestly, NYC with a family and kids is miserable.

ANT, do you plan on living in Philly permanently? If not, where else are you interested in living?

Also, this is a reason why taxes need reforming. A max tax rate of 35% is absurd, not counting costs of entitlements. Why not do what a cpl of economists recommend and impose a national sales tax and virtually phase out the income tax? The income tax destroys people's standard of living and serves to provide "jobs" to loads of people at the IRS who are really glorified processors who operate without any constitutional authority. Google Sherry Jackson, former IRS agent who resigned from the IRS when she discovered that there is NO LAW requiring anyone to pay the income tax.

 

Naa, Philly is fine short term, but I would like to move around. I think NYC is perfectly fine with no debt and making 130-150 a year, if not less depending on how you live and what you like to do.

I think Chicago would be nice for a couple years, maybe down south. I am indifferent.

 
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ANTNaa, Philly is fine short term, but I would like to move around. I think NYC is perfectly fine with no debt and making 130-150 a year, if not less depending on how you live and what you like to do.

I think Chicago would be nice for a couple years, maybe down south. I am indifferent.

If you're thinking of the South, seriously consider Atlanta. Atlanta has Buckhead, a very nice, upscale area popular with ppl in Finance. In that area, you have two upscale shopping malls, Lenox and Phipps Plaza. Buckhead Life restaurants including Chops, NY Prime and Atlanta Fish Market are nice. The women are hot and upscale. The apartments/condos are relatively cheap compared to up north. I toured a highrise apt bldg in Buckhead called 05. See them at http://www.05buckhead.com. Concierge desk, high security etc. for a 1500/one bedroom. Plus, you're 10 minutes away from midtown. Dozens of restaurants, lounges, clubs, the Aquarium, Piedmont Park, Centennial Park. Many apts. in buckhead are cheaper than that.

 

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