1 million $ not enough for a house

I'll never understand while people like you don't just move twenty minutes further away from where you're looking.

20 extra minutes each way works about to about 160 hours per year. Would you give up 4 weeks of vacation so easily?

Fun is illegal wrote:

I'll never understand while people like you don't just move twenty minutes further away from where you're looking.

20 extra minutes each way works about to about 160 hours per year. Would you give up 4 weeks of vacation so easily?

That's a negative way to look at it. My wife's former executive assistant said the commute was one of her favorite times of day as it was the only time of day she had to herself. No kids, ho hubby etc. She could catch up with friends, listen to podcasts, books on tape, etc.

Precious Roy wrote:

It is pretty maddening the way about two dozen cities in the US have become the main employment centers, leaving lots of great smaller cities and towns behind to rot.

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This same story plays out all over the US. Philly is crazy expensive. But Wilke-Barre and Scranton are as cheap as can be. Seattle is crazy expensive, but Tacoma is about half price. Denver/Pueblo. San Fran/Stockton, Modesto. It is just insane the groupthink in this country that keeps companies going time and time again to the same cities with extremely high cost of living while completely ignoring smaller, cheaper and for all practical purposes more livable cities.

I can't believe I find myself agreeing with Precious Roy but... Amen! It's especially crazy now that a lot of us can work from anywhere there's decent internet. Groupthink is the best term for it and it's not just employers it's also the employees. They all think bigger cities are better, which may be true in your 20s, but they won't be young forever.

rojo wrote:

Fun is illegal wrote:

20 extra minutes each way works about to about 160 hours per year. Would you give up 4 weeks of vacation so easily?

That's a negative way to look at it. My wife's former executive assistant said the commute was one of her favorite times of day as it was the only time of day she had to herself. No kids, ho hubby etc. She could catch up with friends, listen to podcasts, books on tape, etc.

I knew this guy would pop up - just didn't know it would be Rojo. I have a friend with an hour+ commute that tries to say the same thing - podcast, books on tape, yada, yada, yada. Everyone clowns him because we know it's bullsh*t - NO ONE want to commute.

Also, his car just blew up and he's looking at a $3,500 repair bill. Why? Because he WASTES 2.5 HOURS EVERYDAY driving 60 miles to work each way.

"Seattle is crazy expensive, but Tacoma is about half price."

Having lived in both Tacoma and Seattle, there's a reason for that.

Every so often I'm tempted to cash in my Seattle chips and either upgrade in Tacoma or sock away some of the equity... but then I remember the Aroma.

I agree with Precious Roy and Hobby Jogger 99.

The US has failed to plan their urban development. Capitalism was supposed to solve everything. Turns out it didn't.

Smaller Cities have to get more money to modernize and big companies have to be pushed to smaller places. In some places that is already happening but not on the scale it needs to.

rojo wrote:

Fun is illegal wrote:

20 extra minutes each way works about to about 160 hours per year. Would you give up 4 weeks of vacation so easily?

That's a negative way to look at it. My wife's former executive assistant said the commute was one of her favorite times of day as it was the only time of day she had to herself. No kids, ho hubby etc. She could catch up with friends, listen to podcasts, books on tape, etc.

What is rojo's wife doing?

Asking for a friend.

$1M will be plenty come Nov 4 if hate wins.

In the 4 1/2 years since, it's only been up, up, up where I live.

Hope the OP found a suitable place.

My neighborhood:

Move to Baltimore already, what's stopping you!?