Metro areas suffering from brain drain or benefiting from brain concentration

Re:Metro areas suffering from brain drain or benefiting from... by pmiller2 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:58PM (#13179142)

Unless you have large, fixed expenses like student loans. Then, the larger absolute salary wins in spite of things like housing (the primary driver of regional differences in COL) being more expensive.

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Re:Metro areas suffering from brain drain or benefiting from... by chronic92 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @05:02PM (#13180061)

Or cars, or even Apple products. People love defending Austin, Boston, etc. Cost of living only applies to food and housing, more of less. After that $20-50K is paid, cost of living does not apply to anything you spend past $50K.

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Re:Metro areas suffering from brain drain or benefiting from... by pmiller2 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @02:18AM (#13183023)

Cars and Apple products are luxuries. We are, after all, talking about the cost of living, not the cost of living luxuriously.

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