[curiousquestion]

people in Boston, or any major metropolitan city are (to be politically correct) mentally handicapped thinking that $1700 per month for 450 sq ft of space is ok.

I have my own consulting business out in the midwest. All my clients are remote, and in January I paid around 33% (utilities included) of that rent figure for my housing, for approx. 4x's the sq ft, and made almost 15x's the above figure last month.

[astrodust]

It's expensive, but there's culture there you can't replace.

You can live in a shack in the woods for next to nothing, but do your peers live there? Are you comfortable remoting in? Can you meet with investors who work in or near Boston on a moment's notice?

The solution here is not to push people out of the cities but to make the cities more livable for those that want to live there.

You have a great consulting business, but living way outside of an urban area is a lifestyle is not for everyone.

[curiousquestion]

That's 15 x $1700, not the other.