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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
I've always wondered about this, Cynthetiq. I interviewed for a job at NYU several years ago, and the salary was about the same as what I was making in Alabama. I remember thinking that I couldn't even come close to living in Manhattan on that salary, which was barely comfortable in Alabama as it was.
And is the reverse true? Is someone making $80,000 in Manhattan going to automatically balk at $70,000 in Alabama (which is enough to live extremely comfortably here)?
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I have had friends move down to Florida or California and continue to get paid their NY salaries... they lived like kings in comparison. When they lost their jobs for whatever reasons, they couldn't find a job paying the same scale, so they moved back to NYC or scaled their lifestyle back accordingly.
It's one of the reasons why I'd like to get expatriated to another country preferably a poorer country where the exchange rate would be very much in my favor.
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