what IT role should I do?

[Red Squirrel]

wut?

I guess no one lives in big cities, huh?

Last I checked the only real way to live in a big city is an apartment for about the same price as a house anywhere else. Well maybe if you have a few mil for a house, but if you have a few mil then why even worry about a job at that point. You can buy acres of land in a smaller city with less than that.

Places like NYC, Toronto, Vancouver have ridiculously high real estate prices, and you get a very tiny yard at that price and live in a super crowded and busy area. I guess to each their own.

Don't get me wrong big cities are fun to visit, but every time I go to one I think to myself "this is cool, but sure as hell would not want to live here".

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Last I checked the only real way to live in a big city is an apartment for about the same price as a house anywhere else. Well maybe if you have a few mil for a house, but if you have a few mil then why even worry about a job at that point. You can buy acres of land in a smaller city with less than that.

Places like NYC, Toronto, Vancouver have ridiculously high real estate prices, and you get a very tiny yard at that price and live in a super crowded and busy area. I guess to each their own.

Don't get me wrong big cities are fun to visit, but every time I go to one I think to myself "this is cool, but sure as hell would not want to live here".

Define a "big city"? There are plenty of affordable, honest-to-goodness houses in most midsize midwestern cities (Like Minneapolis, but also Madison, Omaha, Lansing, Quad Cities, etc.) They're not NYC (hey, what is?), but some of them are larger than Vancouver (which has an absolutely insane real estate market.)

The trick, as always, is finding a job in a place you want to live (as opposed to trying to find a place to live wherever you can find the best job.)

And hey, if you're a total misanthrope (what? misanthropes? in IT? Never!) you buy your 20 acres in the middle of freakin' nowhere, dig the moat as deep as possible, and only take remote contract work. Nothing wrong with that, really - different strokes and whatnot.

 

[Imp]

Define a "big city"? There are plenty of affordable, honest-to-goodness houses in most midsize midwestern cities (Like Minneapolis, but also Madison, Omaha, Lansing, Quad Cities, etc.) They're not NYC (hey, what is?), but some of them are larger than Vancouver (which has an absolutely insane real estate market.)

Canada has five or less "big" cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal..... Calgary?

Toronto and Vancouver have huge housing bubbles, Montreal is a French city where there are language police. And Calgary is the oil+gas capital where they have empty office towers now.

This causes people in Canada to have a bit of a distorted view on housing related things.

 

[jlee]

Last I checked the only real way to live in a big city is an apartment for about the same price as a house anywhere else. Well maybe if you have a few mil for a house, but if you have a few mil then why even worry about a job at that point. You can buy acres of land in a smaller city with less than that.

Places like NYC, Toronto, Vancouver have ridiculously high real estate prices, and you get a very tiny yard at that price and live in a super crowded and busy area. I guess to each their own.

Don't get me wrong big cities are fun to visit, but every time I go to one I think to myself "this is cool, but sure as hell would not want to live here".

Phoenix is the 6th largest city in the US and houses are cheap.

 

[Red Squirrel]

And hey, if you're a total misanthrope (what? misanthropes? in IT? Never!) you buy your 20 acres in the middle of freakin' nowhere, dig the moat as deep as possible, and only take remote contract work. Nothing wrong with that, really - different strokes and whatnot.

That's my dream right there, but replace moat with a lake. I just want a cottage on a lake that I fully own, but also with a fibre connection. 😀 Retirement or lotto plan, maybe. 😀

 

[brianmanahan]

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