I pick it because I live in this middle of no where city with my 1.1 million closest hillbilly friends. We have air quality issues which we are working on. But frankly I grew up in Los Angeles and went to school in Pittsburgh and both had horrible air issues.
I've worked in all three cities and I have made a similar salary in all three cities and I have to say it's not hard to live on this kind of salary in cities like Salt Lake or Pittsburgh and both give a beautiful quality of life.
Feel free to pick whenever you'd like to live. But don't insult a city just because you don't want to live there.
Wow, it's so surprising how people "can't" live well on $140k in major metro cities (e.g. NYC). I feel like that is a good salary. I wonder what people are spending their money on. Is it because most have student loans to pay? I want to know the breakdown of expenses before one can declare this salary is good or bad.
Yeah, I'm not sure what these people are talking about.
I lived quite well as a single male working in Manhattan proper with a sub six-figure salary; living in Hoboken, and commuting maybe 15-20 mins everyday on the PATH. This was around 2013-14. And I lived like a king in my opinion... was able to save money, build my credit, eat out wherever, never pay attention to price tags when shopping, and take trips/vacations, etc.
I've worked in all three cities and I have made a similar salary in all three cities and I have to say it's not hard to live on this kind of salary in cities like Salt Lake or Pittsburgh and both give a beautiful quality of life.
Feel free to pick whenever you'd like to live. But don't insult a city just because you don't want to live there.