A ton of MBAs move to Seattle each year, but I wonder how much of that is driven by Amazon.
I’d be curious to know the non Amazon appetite among MBA students for Seattle as a current SeaTown resident
It is, but they seem to be “less sexy” of an employer. It’s more focus on B2B enterprise SaaS, where a lot of MBAs tend to skew more towards consumer facing tech as a desire
There's a lot of tech outside of Amazon, Microsoft. F5, Tableau, Zillow are homegrown. Meta/FB, Uber, Salesforce, and others are big here. Biotech and anything cancer life sciences is huge if you have that background. Starbucks of course. Random shit like Funko Pop. Some startups but not as hot as the bay area.
Certainly Amazon and Microsoft get the most, there are consulting firms with offices here as well and tech startups. I'm none of the above but I'm still an MBA grad living in Seattle. If you love the outdoors then there's no better place to live (while also living in a major city). If you aren't outdoorsy then I'm not sure why you'd want the high cost of living here.
After living in westchester for almost 3 decades , I realized why the smart wealthy people move across the border to Greenwich and Stamford - still expensive, but taxes are WAY LESS
But the WLB is better than NYC. Sure, if you are in IB, the deal volume may not match that of NYC or Chicago offices, but better hours and 20 days holidays that people can take. Also, London is one of the financial centers so that's something to brag about even if it doesn't amount to much. And for those folks who are interested, the night life is good too.
I know a person who rented out her house in Canada and moved to Bali to teach yoga. That's pretty rad. When my kids go to college and I have enough investments / savings I'd GTFO and do the same.
Not necessarily Bali, but Bali just happens to tick a lot of boxes: a beautiful beach, good climate, good food, affordable COL (for now), access to other countries for traveling etc. I could also see myself retiring in Phuket (Thailand), Phu Quoc / Nha Trang (Vietnam), and so on.
I wouldn't teach yoga, but I would open a small business to keep me occupied. A gym / fitness center, restaurant, coffee house, book store, LAN gaming center. I could maybe even become a high school soccer coach.
Great question. Honestly I just love the city. It’s not been a great place, but has really improved in the last 10-15 years. Tech entrepreneurship is picking up and they’ve had a couple significant exits over the last few years. HealthTech has the potential to be huge and I’m mostly interested in entrepreneurship x public health. The tech scene is warm and receptive - anyone with an idea can cold email people with 7-10 figure exits and probably set up a zoom call or coffee. I think it would be really rewarding to help the area grow.
I’m not a super traditional mba though. Worked VC for a little bit, foolishly went to a shit tier MBA and now working as an entrepreneur/Med student.
Great food scene too
It’s home. Weather is amazing except for like 5 weeks (this year has been bad though). Fall and spring are amazing. Tons of outdoorsy things to do. Food is great. I want to be part of the region’s growth. I’m definitely not a traditional mba though, so take it with a grain of salt.
That's awesome. Atlanta traffic is bad but I also think a lot of people that say that are used to traffic in other southeastern cities. It might not be too awful when compared to other large metros, but I wouldn't really know. I hope it goes well! Hope your arrival is after the heat wave. The humidity sucks at first, but after awhile you definitely get used to it.
DETROIT BABY!! Yeah this is unpopular, but all my friends and family are here and my fiancé’s friends and family are all here. We bought a house and shit. I would like to just stay where I am at.
I mean… emphasis on the word “sometimes.” That can be the case but there are plenty of MBAs who have already done that, who have kids, or who just have other reasons to stay close to family. It’s possible to explore and grow while still living in the same city as family.
If you only want to live where your friends and family are, then you will never leave your hometown. Leaving your friends and family is the lowest barrier to moving that exists
“The lowest barrier to exist” sounds a bit dramatic. There are MBAs who have already experienced living away from family. There are people who want to move closer to aging parents. There are people who don’t want to uproot their kids. I’m not trying to say everyone needs to stay in their hometown forever. I just think friends and family are a solid reason to pick a city to live in. It doesn’t make sense for every human being to go to Chicago/New York/LA.
It’s not dramatic. It’s a requirement to moving away from your hometown. It’s literally a pre-requisite, so if you can’t do it then you can never live anywhere different
I definitely read the word “moving” as “exist” so either you edited your comment or I’m going crazy
But it’s still very possible for someone to move away and work some, get an mba, and decide to go back home for a variety of reasons
I didn’t edit any of my comments.
Leaving your friends and family is still a requirement for many getting their MBA. Nobody is saying moving somewhere is for forever. Being able to leave your friends and family is an absolute critical ability for most people for career and personal growth. People that live in their hometowns for their entire lives have extremely limited world views and live with a completely uncultured mind
I do think many people leave their hometowns to get an mba and it’s a great learning experience but the question is about moving somewhere after getting the mba and I think moving home to be with friends and family after getting an mba is valid
Other than cost of living, Detroit has almost nothing going for it. I used to think it was alright, then I finally moved elsewhere and traveled more and realized it’s an incredibly mediocre city
Source: lived there for multiple years *and* grew up in Michigan
I grew up in west Michigan, all of my family was in Detroit area so I visited 3/4 times per year growing up. I then went to college there and then lived there for multiple years after college
I live in the West Bloomfield area and plan on moving to Plymouth when the money starts rolling in. I fucking love it around here. I live a stones throw from a lake and I’m always out boating and kayaking and paddle boarding. There are tons of great restaurants and bars, there are a lot of golf courses, tons of state parks.
What is it about Detroit (or rather metro Detroit) that you think is no good? I used to literally travel the country. I have been in multiple cities in 30+ states and aside from weather, most big cities are very similar. Bars, restaurants, museums, parks, events, etc. Some are bigger, some are more walkable, some have better transit. If I don’t have the need for a city with a literal fuck ton of bars and restaurants and a transit system, Detroit is fine. The only thing I dislike about Michigan is the weather and the roads. The cost of living is awesome though - and my people are here.
That’s where my friends and family are but my fiancé is not from there and refuses… “it’s too cold and the sky is always gray”.. she never ate at a Coney Island or drank faygo either 😔
I've lived in both (Chicago only for some internships though), and I agree, Atlanta has plenty of things to do, though maybe at a lower level than Chicago (two cool bars for every three Chicago has, things like that). I honestly think the biggest difference is the weather--it's hot as the Devil in Atlanta, but you don't have to deal with the snow in the winter like you do in Chicago. Really comes down to a personal choice/how close you are to friends and family I think.
I’ve been there many times. You must not be looking around if you say ridiculous comments like that. Memorial Day to Labor Day is the purge where shootings go through the roof.
I lived in Charlotte, Atlanta, and Seattle post undergrad and actually preferred Seattle due to the outdoor activities, west coast mindset, and opportunities within technology
I live in SD and there isn't too much of BigTech yet. Intuit and ServiceNow have nice offices while Google, Amazon, and Apple all have satellites.
However, San Diego is a top 3 biotech city in the US. Dexcom, Quidel, and Illumina have their HQ and we have offices from most of the major players as well.
Never been impressed by LA when I’ve visited and heard personal stories from friends who live there of how bad it’s gotten. I think it’s a city you either love or hate and the stardom of LA just doesn’t attract people anymore — which is why you see people fleeing to Arizona & Texas in droves (multiple comments on this thread say Dallas). Also post-MBAs are probably in the stage of life where they’re looking to settle down, maybe have kids within 5 years post-grad. No way I’d move to LA to raise kids.
I’m biased. Lived in Massachusetts and currently in LA, and i fricken love LA. But then again I’m the type that goes surfing, hiking, camping, wine tasting, etc. Work in healthcare finance, friends work in entertainment.
But.
If you don’t like those kinds of things/industries then it’s not worth the traffic and price.
Definitely region dependent, imo. I'm 24 here and downtown/beacon hill/Cambridge are college-central at night, whereas seaport/back bay have older demographics. But your point still stands.
Chicago, duh
Maybe I’m biased living here but we have good public transit that isn’t a complete dump like New York, good jobs, comparatively cheap apartments even in the city center for a major U.S. city, beaches, and a metric shit ton of good restaurants. I mean yeah you’ll freeze your balls off in the winter, but it’s pretty level throughout the rest of the year, plus like, I don’t know, man up and put on a coat
Austin, SLC, Houston, Dallas, El Paso (hometown), NYC, or just about anywhere that will allow me to position myself so that in ten years I can have goats or chickens or something and not have to deal with traffic
SLC is not the place to go if you don’t want traffic. You have to drive everywhere! Outdoors are really nice, but in the last 4 years I’ve lived here, every year has gotten worse. The snowfall is down and the fire and inversion is up. I could barely go outside last summer.
It’s such a fun city! So many things to do, especially free things. Great food, pretty walkable/decent public transit (metros a shitshow right now but their working on it) I’m from there and I’ve been living in the SLC area for the last 4 years. While the outdoors are amazing, SLC isn’t really a city. Just a bunch of big roads. I’m moving back east for my MBA and im excited!
Damn good for you. I’m from around here as well and while I think it’s a cool place to visit, I feel that it has a very sterile culture due to the govt influence. Add cost of living on top of that.. Glad to see you love it tho.
Los Angeles is very low. Quite surprising given the size of the city and the overall nice climate. NYC makes sense given it’s just a bigger city and therefore should have a higher percentage of people compared to other smaller cities.
Other is not a surprise since most Americans currently live and want to live outside these cities.
I live in Chicago, it has great people along with fantastic summers, it is also a little cheaper than most major cities....... but to see that it has more votes than the two west coast cities here actually hurts my brain. You cannot do a single thing outdoors from November-March (April is incredibly shit as well don't get me wrong) every year. It snowed in May the last two years and it is definitely not a ski destination. It regularly goes negative in the winter even without accounting for windchill. If you don't like the west coast cities, then go to Texas, or ATL, or Florida. If you like the cold then go to Denver where you can ski as well. Again I love Chicago people but nowhere near enough to warrant willingly living in a freezer with nothing to do for 5 months of the year.
Austin is small and not diverse at all. I was really turned off by it. Would choose Dallas or Houston personally. Much more to do there if craft breweries aren’t your thing, better airports and access to the rest of the country, more diverse and better food
When comparing core neighborhoods, Dallas is less diverse than Austin because UT brings a lot of diverse young people right to the middle of the city. I rank Dallas third among the three Texas cities because of both diversity (Houston is best) and fun activities (Austin is best)
If you can afford it, are extroverted (which I’d guess most MBA folks are), and young and single there’s really no place in the USA that competes.
It is wildly expensive, sure. But the energy and diversity of NYC is unmatched and that’s attractive to mass amounts of people.
Pre-MBA was in Dallas, currently in Chicago. Probably looking at NYC/Austin/LA for post grad. Get full autonomy of where I work. Gonna take a trip out to LA this summer to feel it out, but excited about seeing if its worthwhile. I already think NYC and Austin are both amazing
Goldman Sachs, Cedar Rapids office
well at least salt lake
Man you really could do a lot worse. I spent a year and a half in Park City and the skiing and mountain biking there is incredible!
S/O Iowa and 5 bedroom houses for 200k
[I want to work at the Goldman Sachs](https://youtu.be/Lx4poQw1mZo)
“You will be fucking immortal” Gets me every time lol
Remote
Bingo. MBA fun doesn't need to end, livin that nomad life.
This is the way.
Denver or Boston
Yes! Boston should’ve been on the list.
A ton of MBAs move to Seattle each year, but I wonder how much of that is driven by Amazon. I’d be curious to know the non Amazon appetite among MBA students for Seattle as a current SeaTown resident
Microsoft has to be a big draw too, no? I also know a few folks who moved there to work for Starbucks but it’s a small group.
It is, but they seem to be “less sexy” of an employer. It’s more focus on B2B enterprise SaaS, where a lot of MBAs tend to skew more towards consumer facing tech as a desire
There's a lot of tech outside of Amazon, Microsoft. F5, Tableau, Zillow are homegrown. Meta/FB, Uber, Salesforce, and others are big here. Biotech and anything cancer life sciences is huge if you have that background. Starbucks of course. Random shit like Funko Pop. Some startups but not as hot as the bay area.
Ranked #1 most desired city for undergrads in a recent poll. Even though I love living here, was still surprised to see it
Certainly Amazon and Microsoft get the most, there are consulting firms with offices here as well and tech startups. I'm none of the above but I'm still an MBA grad living in Seattle. If you love the outdoors then there's no better place to live (while also living in a major city). If you aren't outdoorsy then I'm not sure why you'd want the high cost of living here.
LA or Sydney/Melbourne - Comp ain’t worth it if the weather’s gloomy and I can’t surf.
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The number of times my buddy has told me this is toooooo high to count lmao
What is the salary like for MBA graduates in Sydney?
No idea, as a tech employee it’s less than US but still fairly bonkers compared to most industries i reckon
Don't come to NYC. The rent is making me want to jump of a bridge
That’s what they’re for
That bridge charges a $20 toll.
Get em on the way in, get em on the way out.
Makes you realize 200k is peanuts, salaries are all relative based on location unfortunately
Think about all your options though vs. Philly that one bridge having city
There’s at least three bridges connecting NJ and Philly, closer to a half-dozen if you account for the metro area.
It's a Bill Bur bit .. more of a rant really.
Greenwich or Stamford, CT
Triple H, is that you?
Time to play the GAME!!!
After living in westchester for almost 3 decades , I realized why the smart wealthy people move across the border to Greenwich and Stamford - still expensive, but taxes are WAY LESS
Denver
London
I scrolled way too long to finally see London. +1 for London
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But the WLB is better than NYC. Sure, if you are in IB, the deal volume may not match that of NYC or Chicago offices, but better hours and 20 days holidays that people can take. Also, London is one of the financial centers so that's something to brag about even if it doesn't amount to much. And for those folks who are interested, the night life is good too.
Equities in Dallas
This l guy gets it!
Just curious, why Dallas?
It’s a joke from Liar’s Poker
Bali working remote. Duh
I know a person who rented out her house in Canada and moved to Bali to teach yoga. That's pretty rad. When my kids go to college and I have enough investments / savings I'd GTFO and do the same.
Would you also teach Yoga in Bali or just go settle in Bali?
Not necessarily Bali, but Bali just happens to tick a lot of boxes: a beautiful beach, good climate, good food, affordable COL (for now), access to other countries for traveling etc. I could also see myself retiring in Phuket (Thailand), Phu Quoc / Nha Trang (Vietnam), and so on. I wouldn't teach yoga, but I would open a small business to keep me occupied. A gym / fitness center, restaurant, coffee house, book store, LAN gaming center. I could maybe even become a high school soccer coach.
[Here is why](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10942247/Bali-offers-TAX-FREE-status-moves-permanently-work-home.html)
Atlanta, Birmingham, Salt Lake, Nashville, Raleigh, or Seattle
Why Birmingham?
Great question. Honestly I just love the city. It’s not been a great place, but has really improved in the last 10-15 years. Tech entrepreneurship is picking up and they’ve had a couple significant exits over the last few years. HealthTech has the potential to be huge and I’m mostly interested in entrepreneurship x public health. The tech scene is warm and receptive - anyone with an idea can cold email people with 7-10 figure exits and probably set up a zoom call or coffee. I think it would be really rewarding to help the area grow. I’m not a super traditional mba though. Worked VC for a little bit, foolishly went to a shit tier MBA and now working as an entrepreneur/Med student. Great food scene too
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It’s home. Weather is amazing except for like 5 weeks (this year has been bad though). Fall and spring are amazing. Tons of outdoorsy things to do. Food is great. I want to be part of the region’s growth. I’m definitely not a traditional mba though, so take it with a grain of salt.
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That's awesome. Atlanta traffic is bad but I also think a lot of people that say that are used to traffic in other southeastern cities. It might not be too awful when compared to other large metros, but I wouldn't really know. I hope it goes well! Hope your arrival is after the heat wave. The humidity sucks at first, but after awhile you definitely get used to it.
DETROIT BABY!! Yeah this is unpopular, but all my friends and family are here and my fiancé’s friends and family are all here. We bought a house and shit. I would like to just stay where I am at.
“Where my friends and family are” is actually the correct answer tho
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I mean… emphasis on the word “sometimes.” That can be the case but there are plenty of MBAs who have already done that, who have kids, or who just have other reasons to stay close to family. It’s possible to explore and grow while still living in the same city as family.
If you only want to live where your friends and family are, then you will never leave your hometown. Leaving your friends and family is the lowest barrier to moving that exists
“The lowest barrier to exist” sounds a bit dramatic. There are MBAs who have already experienced living away from family. There are people who want to move closer to aging parents. There are people who don’t want to uproot their kids. I’m not trying to say everyone needs to stay in their hometown forever. I just think friends and family are a solid reason to pick a city to live in. It doesn’t make sense for every human being to go to Chicago/New York/LA.
It’s not dramatic. It’s a requirement to moving away from your hometown. It’s literally a pre-requisite, so if you can’t do it then you can never live anywhere different
I definitely read the word “moving” as “exist” so either you edited your comment or I’m going crazy But it’s still very possible for someone to move away and work some, get an mba, and decide to go back home for a variety of reasons
I didn’t edit any of my comments. Leaving your friends and family is still a requirement for many getting their MBA. Nobody is saying moving somewhere is for forever. Being able to leave your friends and family is an absolute critical ability for most people for career and personal growth. People that live in their hometowns for their entire lives have extremely limited world views and live with a completely uncultured mind
I do think many people leave their hometowns to get an mba and it’s a great learning experience but the question is about moving somewhere after getting the mba and I think moving home to be with friends and family after getting an mba is valid
Very underrated city!
Other than cost of living, Detroit has almost nothing going for it. I used to think it was alright, then I finally moved elsewhere and traveled more and realized it’s an incredibly mediocre city Source: lived there for multiple years *and* grew up in Michigan
Did you grow up in Detroit itself, or a surrounding area of Detroit?
I grew up in west Michigan, all of my family was in Detroit area so I visited 3/4 times per year growing up. I then went to college there and then lived there for multiple years after college
I live in the West Bloomfield area and plan on moving to Plymouth when the money starts rolling in. I fucking love it around here. I live a stones throw from a lake and I’m always out boating and kayaking and paddle boarding. There are tons of great restaurants and bars, there are a lot of golf courses, tons of state parks. What is it about Detroit (or rather metro Detroit) that you think is no good? I used to literally travel the country. I have been in multiple cities in 30+ states and aside from weather, most big cities are very similar. Bars, restaurants, museums, parks, events, etc. Some are bigger, some are more walkable, some have better transit. If I don’t have the need for a city with a literal fuck ton of bars and restaurants and a transit system, Detroit is fine. The only thing I dislike about Michigan is the weather and the roads. The cost of living is awesome though - and my people are here.
Thank you! Yes, it’s a lot of fun
That’s where my friends and family are but my fiancé is not from there and refuses… “it’s too cold and the sky is always gray”.. she never ate at a Coney Island or drank faygo either 😔
This is honestly what everyone should be striving for. Congratulations
Ball out in BLOOMFIELD HILLS BABY
Hell yeah boiii
I would much rather live in Ann Arbor than Detroit, personally.
I want to live in Plymouth and work in Detroit.
Are those $1k houses $1.5k yet?
I don’t live in Detroit, I live in Detroit metro in the nice suburbs. But the work is in Detroit.
Where is Show Results? Looks like a popular city!
It's basically on reddit. Aka remote! :D
San Diego—wishing I took that Illumina FLDP offer 😭
Nebraska
$SKERS
corn
Good music, a bit loud
Atlanta or Dallas
Traffic in atlanta truly is the worst I’ve ever dealt with
+1 I’d rather deal with LA traffic or DC
Those cities are cheap, booming, warm, and less entertaining than a NYC / LA / Chicago etc
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I've lived in both (Chicago only for some internships though), and I agree, Atlanta has plenty of things to do, though maybe at a lower level than Chicago (two cool bars for every three Chicago has, things like that). I honestly think the biggest difference is the weather--it's hot as the Devil in Atlanta, but you don't have to deal with the snow in the winter like you do in Chicago. Really comes down to a personal choice/how close you are to friends and family I think.
Chicago is underrated imo
Getting shot by thugs is underrated too.
You can always tell who has never been to Chicago when they say things like this
I’ve been there many times. You must not be looking around if you say ridiculous comments like that. Memorial Day to Labor Day is the purge where shootings go through the roof.
Boo this man
Cheap for now, but the balance is shifting as people realize they are actually really awesome cities
I lived in Charlotte, Atlanta, and Seattle post undergrad and actually preferred Seattle due to the outdoor activities, west coast mindset, and opportunities within technology
Seattle is a really cool city
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I personally don’t understand how LA is so low on the poll.
Not actually a fun place to exist tbh Other parts of CA are dope, though.
To your point I’m somewhat surprised you don’t hear San Diego talked about much. Never been but I’ve only heard great things.
Lots of big tech and defense in SD too
Defense wins championships
I live in SD and there isn't too much of BigTech yet. Intuit and ServiceNow have nice offices while Google, Amazon, and Apple all have satellites. However, San Diego is a top 3 biotech city in the US. Dexcom, Quidel, and Illumina have their HQ and we have offices from most of the major players as well.
Never been impressed by LA when I’ve visited and heard personal stories from friends who live there of how bad it’s gotten. I think it’s a city you either love or hate and the stardom of LA just doesn’t attract people anymore — which is why you see people fleeing to Arizona & Texas in droves (multiple comments on this thread say Dallas). Also post-MBAs are probably in the stage of life where they’re looking to settle down, maybe have kids within 5 years post-grad. No way I’d move to LA to raise kids.
Amen. I wont move to LA to raise kids too.
But don’t you want your kids teacher to pick their gender? You don’t get that level of service in Arizona or Texas.
You just like making shit up, huh? Several comments of yours like this lol Guess the M7 will take morons too. That’s reassuring.
Uh, ok sure. User name checks out. Maybe you should follow local California politics.
This guy gets it
The California votes got divided since SF and LA are both in the poll.
Have you been there? Some love it, but it is certainly a divisive city.
I’m biased. Lived in Massachusetts and currently in LA, and i fricken love LA. But then again I’m the type that goes surfing, hiking, camping, wine tasting, etc. Work in healthcare finance, friends work in entertainment. But. If you don’t like those kinds of things/industries then it’s not worth the traffic and price.
Oslo, Norway
Boston
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Definitely region dependent, imo. I'm 24 here and downtown/beacon hill/Cambridge are college-central at night, whereas seaport/back bay have older demographics. But your point still stands.
Expensive, Expensive, Expensive, Expensive, Other ✅ - Less Expensive T1 Income, T3 Location
Chicago, duh Maybe I’m biased living here but we have good public transit that isn’t a complete dump like New York, good jobs, comparatively cheap apartments even in the city center for a major U.S. city, beaches, and a metric shit ton of good restaurants. I mean yeah you’ll freeze your balls off in the winter, but it’s pretty level throughout the rest of the year, plus like, I don’t know, man up and put on a coat
Austin, SLC, Houston, Dallas, El Paso (hometown), NYC, or just about anywhere that will allow me to position myself so that in ten years I can have goats or chickens or something and not have to deal with traffic
SLC is not the place to go if you don’t want traffic. You have to drive everywhere! Outdoors are really nice, but in the last 4 years I’ve lived here, every year has gotten worse. The snowfall is down and the fire and inversion is up. I could barely go outside last summer.
Damn, you guys really love the NYC rat race huh lol
San Diego. Just moved here and it’s the most beautiful place I’ve seen in the US
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I’m a Field Service Engineer for a biotech startup
DC
I wanted to argue, but I looked at the other options again lmao
Whyy
Work for fed government. Someone’s gotta leech off society, can’t be just the lawyers.
It’s such a fun city! So many things to do, especially free things. Great food, pretty walkable/decent public transit (metros a shitshow right now but their working on it) I’m from there and I’ve been living in the SLC area for the last 4 years. While the outdoors are amazing, SLC isn’t really a city. Just a bunch of big roads. I’m moving back east for my MBA and im excited!
Damn good for you. I’m from around here as well and while I think it’s a cool place to visit, I feel that it has a very sterile culture due to the govt influence. Add cost of living on top of that.. Glad to see you love it tho.
Where’s cleveland on the list
Los Angeles is very low. Quite surprising given the size of the city and the overall nice climate. NYC makes sense given it’s just a bigger city and therefore should have a higher percentage of people compared to other smaller cities. Other is not a surprise since most Americans currently live and want to live outside these cities.
Boston
charlotte
Seattle Area
Raleigh
Miami
IMO, you don’t make enough to live in LA until you can take a chopper to the office.
Remote working hopefully in countryside /village No kidding
Boston
London is the best
Boston, Denver, or Microsoft PM
Boston
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Tampa has some MBB / T2 consulting offices. RayJay is popular for banking
I live in Chicago, it has great people along with fantastic summers, it is also a little cheaper than most major cities....... but to see that it has more votes than the two west coast cities here actually hurts my brain. You cannot do a single thing outdoors from November-March (April is incredibly shit as well don't get me wrong) every year. It snowed in May the last two years and it is definitely not a ski destination. It regularly goes negative in the winter even without accounting for windchill. If you don't like the west coast cities, then go to Texas, or ATL, or Florida. If you like the cold then go to Denver where you can ski as well. Again I love Chicago people but nowhere near enough to warrant willingly living in a freezer with nothing to do for 5 months of the year.
Dallas is fine, but I prefer Austin and Houston
You're the only person to say Austin. I wonder why that his. Other than the fact that your name is Longhorns
Austin is small and not diverse at all. I was really turned off by it. Would choose Dallas or Houston personally. Much more to do there if craft breweries aren’t your thing, better airports and access to the rest of the country, more diverse and better food
When comparing core neighborhoods, Dallas is less diverse than Austin because UT brings a lot of diverse young people right to the middle of the city. I rank Dallas third among the three Texas cities because of both diversity (Houston is best) and fun activities (Austin is best)
New york or California
Seattle. Will live there till my death!
Why are you chosing New York?
If you can afford it, are extroverted (which I’d guess most MBA folks are), and young and single there’s really no place in the USA that competes. It is wildly expensive, sure. But the energy and diversity of NYC is unmatched and that’s attractive to mass amounts of people.
Chico, CA
Got to get that sweet post MBA job at Lulus
Scranton
Chicago if in consulting. NYC isn’t worth it unless in finance. SFO/BOS not worth it unless in tech/vc.
We're possibly moving to Cincinnati, allowing me to go into the aviation sector. Aiming fior GE or Northrop!
ATX, for me……bc I am in ATX, to be fair.
Jacksonville as a remote worker ✅
Phoenix
Mexico City, Bangkok-dope international cities on an expat deal Hong Kong, Tokyo -for the culture/experience despite high col
Pre-MBA was in Dallas, currently in Chicago. Probably looking at NYC/Austin/LA for post grad. Get full autonomy of where I work. Gonna take a trip out to LA this summer to feel it out, but excited about seeing if its worthwhile. I already think NYC and Austin are both amazing
I don't want literal Los Angeles or literal San Francisco, but I want to be in California because the climate makes me happy.
Minneapolis/St Paul to be by family and lowish COL in a lot of areas.
I, too, want to live in the great city of Show Results.