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Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by junkscience2017 »

FiveSquared wrote: post #20

What about Sacramento? The city is seeing more and more people moving to it, due to the warm climate and the location close to the Bay.

Sacramento has all of the disadvantages of living in California (high taxes, regulation, etc) but none of the advantages (great weather, scenery, awesome job market).

You mention the weather... Sacramento's is awful. The heat is unbearable.

You might as well just keep on 80 until you hit Reno.

Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by thecardcheat »

novaRom wrote: post #26

Move abroad. That's simple. Lots of places with much better quality of life. European Union is terrific place: multiple nations, different climates, various cultures, freedom of speech, parlamentary democracy, clean ecology, safety, good education, inexpensive housing.

For US Generation Student Debt, there's a significant long-term cost to that decision. If you don't have to double the years it takes you to pay back your debt to do so, maybe moving abroad is more of an option.

Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by betaby »

novaRom wrote: post #26

Move abroad. That's simple. Lots of places with much better quality of life. European Union is terrific place: multiple nations, different climates, various cultures, freedom of speech, parlamentary democracy, clean ecology, safety, good education, inexpensive housing.

Cost of living is really high everywhere comparably with the the salaries. I can't even imagine place where it make sense to live keeping in mind one day you want to settle and buy property, raise kids and so on.

Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by psychometry »

novaRom wrote: post #26

Move abroad. That's simple. Lots of places with much better quality of life. European Union is terrific place: multiple nations, different climates, various cultures, freedom of speech, parlamentary democracy, clean ecology, safety, good education, inexpensive housing.

Getting work visas for yourself and your significant other and moving your entire life across an ocean can hardly be called "simple".

Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by aaron-lebo »

psychometry wrote: post #34
novaRom wrote: post #26

Move abroad. That's simple. Lots of places with much better quality of life. European Union is terrific place: multiple nations, different climates, various cultures, freedom of speech, parlamentary democracy, clean ecology, safety, good education, inexpensive housing.

Getting work visas for yourself and your significant other and moving your entire life across an ocean can hardly be called "simple".

Yeah, but if the US is a dystopia and the EU is a utopia, who is to argue? Or maybe a lot of those comparisons are simplistic.

We like and have most of those things, too.

Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by Tempest1981 »

aantix wrote: post #15
don_draper wrote: post #6

Real estate is one of the biggest intergenerational scams ever. Be smart and just buy a cheaper house and then work less. pretty simple

"ever"? We live in an affluent neighborhood surrounded by Doctors and CPAs. Our kids see that every day. That's their normal. And if/when there are major budget changes to the district, who do you think are the first parents in line advocating for their school? You literally buy your kids a chance at a better future.

I kind of agree. Although I look around at those professionals every morning, and almost nobody is smiling. That worries me. And kids notice that too.

Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by mavhc »

novaRom wrote: post #26

Move abroad. That's simple. Lots of places with much better quality of life. European Union is terrific place: multiple nations, different climates, various cultures, freedom of speech, parlamentary democracy, clean ecology, safety, good education, inexpensive housing.

Won't you have to pay taxes twice if you're from USA though?

Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by sitkack »

aantix wrote: post #15
don_draper wrote: post #6

Real estate is one of the biggest intergenerational scams ever. Be smart and just buy a cheaper house and then work less. pretty simple

"ever"? We live in an affluent neighborhood surrounded by Doctors and CPAs. Our kids see that every day. That's their normal. And if/when there are major budget changes to the district, who do you think are the first parents in line advocating for their school? You literally buy your kids a chance at a better future.

School funds should be distributed equally across the entire population. If we were a democracy, rich neighborhoods wouldn't have better schools.

Re: Millennials to Small Cities: Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Post by aaron-lebo »

sscarduzio wrote: post #37

Just open your own business (products or freelance) and move to Mexico to work remotely for US customers. Super cheap, better food, tropical climate. 90% of HN readers would be smart enough to do this and sustain themselves beautifully.

Is that the same Mexico with 100k+ killed in the drug war since 2005? Maybe it's an unreasonable fear, but conducting business and sticking out as a foreigner seem like a risk.
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