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  Grew up in Philly, currently in Austin TX and planning to move back to the East in the next five years.  Cost of living and Property Taxes are high here and the way school funding is set up a huge chunk of my money doesn’t go to the local schools.  I have two tween/teen daughters, one of them LGBTQ, and I predict an exodus of more progressive families like me out of the higher COL southern cities.
context: I would honestly be interested in living there, but there’s just no way I can afford the cost of living there. >
  
  Salaries are higher though. 
  I have the best of both worlds, got a job in Boston but now work remote in a much more affordable area a little over an hour outside of Boston. 
  I don't miss that commute at all though, sometimes it was over 2 hours each way with rush hour traffic.
  I have no idea how people can afford to live closer to the city.  My house would easily cost 3-4x as much with way less land and privacy. >
  
  Salaries are higher because the cost of living is higher. It's very difficult to break even living and working in Boston unless you make six figures or more >
  
  That’s not true though? Maybe for families, but my wife and I pull in ~100k+ combined, live in a small townhouse style home an 8min walk from a blue line stop, and live comfortably. >
  
  100K+ is literally "six figures or more". Your anecdote does not contradict what you're replying to >
  
  It does though "live comfortably" was part of his statement >
  
  The thumbnail pic of SLC got me! I was like huh that is NOT Boston, but tried to imagine mountains like that in the Northeast somewhere. >
  
  Interesting that Washington, where I live, is the only blue state in the top 10 states for numeric growth in population. I wonder if they’re wfh folks who’ve been attracted by no state income tax. >
  
  Twilight fans, obviously. >
  
  Moved from NC to MA six months before covid hit. Its expensive as fuuuuuuuuuuck but my wife and i make around 3 times what we did back in NC and have substantially better workers and renters rights. Fair trade in my eyes. >
  
  If you ever need a doctor, the medical care is much better. >
  
  Due to cost. 
  Places seeing rapid growth are also forecast to be hit harder and harder by weather or lack of rain. >
  
  Imma do my best to stay in the north east. We really looking a lot better than most of the US, outside states like Iowa. >
  
  At least we can go outside during the summer. >
  
  I grew up in MA and left for Washington state and didn’t move back. That was 20 years ago. The biggest difference in my mind is that Washington plans for growth, ie new housing,whereas MA and the rest of New England restrict it as much as possible. So the bang for your buck in MA vs WA is terrible. >
  
  People need to stop moving to Maine. >
  
  pretty sure this is going to start to reverse in coming years if it hasn't begun already. 
  there is a lot to be said for high property taxes if they provide good schools, roads etc. 
  A lot of what I see in the south (NC+GA) is zero infrastructure investment, over-inflated housing prices and resentment of school budgets....can't speak for Fla and Tx.