^ So the big surprise here is most are comparing their own little slice of heaven (or he!!) and some areas seem more favorable due to income, some due to cost of living, some for both, some for neither. And we aren’t even talking about whether you enjoy that part of the country.
And magically the same skills, trades, professions aren’t met with the same amount of success in differnet areas. But as typical, not everyone has lived in differnet geographic regions so stereotypes aren’t necessarily accurate.
Someone in IT or computer science would have a hard time making a living in the middle of cornfield MN and a bean farmer would swear the world is coming to an end living in SF or Phx. So the bean farmer swears that you have to work 3x as hard for half the money in SF and the computer guy is unemployed in central MN because the only IT job is the computers at the town library.
Then one if em turns to drinking and drugs and we support him because he’s oppressed.
I get it. Part of the reason for my career success if you can call it that, is moving where the work is.
