Like Brett Ratner?

I just gave you factual data while you use personal references to friends/family, HAHAHA!!! Great, you “know some people” in other areas yet the overwhelming amount of people living/moving there are in finance and real estate. Or is there some other secret Wall Street that no one knows about??

Finance accounts for over 15% of the NY economy! It is overwhelmingly the #1 market in NY. Anyone and everyone that is in banking wants to work on Wall Street!

They’ll give you nothing and you’ll like it. We’re talking about an industry that nickel and dimes you over everything now, doesn’t care about being on time while cramming people in butts to nuts to cover their bottom line and maximize profit at any and all expense.

My comment about finance and real estate is based on your reference to people coming from elsewhere, MANY people with degrees in finance or real estate licenses migrate there because of both Wall St. and the housing market.

The average electrical bill in MA is $94/mo.:

CA has the highest cost of living in the US!!! If you have to pay alot of money to live somewhere, you need to make alot which means you have to work alot...and in CA most of the jobs are located in only a few areas and CA also has some of the worst commutes in the entire country which defeats the whole “quality of…

Which is fine for one or 2 people, but a family? I get that in FL, AZ, CA, etc. you can consider outside areas as “living space”, but CA has some flat out horrible traffic which seriously eats into the whole “quality of life” debate.

From what I recall, Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury used to be beautiful with huuuge Victorian homes in tree-lined neighborhoods. Around the 60s many moved out into the suburbs and those areas became rundown and crime-infested. Now many are moving back because of proximity to Boston and gentrification has taken hold…

Waaaaay too expensive and zero jobs.

You’ve obviously never been to Boston, because unlike CA you can live right outside of the city and houses are under $300k, rents under $1000 and you can take buses and trains to work instead of sitting in traffic for over an hour. Are there areas hit by gentrification? Sure, but they are also building up mini-cities…

...and yet there are TONS of “less than desirable” areas in Cali and NY. The bottom line is that people living in NY and Cali act as if the universe revolves around them, yet never travel outside of their state and see the truth. There’s a reason Cali is listed as one of the highest states of people leaving:

But the jobs aren’t there, so why commute 1.5 hours just to have a decent climate??

...or that people that vote one party can’t consider moving to CA because of how locked in and predictable it’s outcome will be? There has to be a system like that so the other 40-something states have a say in elections, otherwise candidates will simply just campaign in NY and CA.

Meh, there was a large population boom from other areas to both TX and GA for POCs yet Houston and Atlanta have huge crime issues now yet aren’t known as ‘poor’ cities.

I’m from MA and while attending training in the Midwest, I met alot of Cali people and didn’t realize the whole “northern vs. SoCal friendly fued”. The one thing everyone agreed on was that traffic is horrible, how important it was to get a place near your job and the high cost of living. So how enjoyable is the…