people help: Anyone on the northern east USA that could help me know what areas are like that youve been to so i can know where to move? - Help.com

I think Ithica NY is really nice. I really didn’t like the philadelphia area when I lived there, I thought people were really strange.

I used to live near Herndon Virginia which is evidently a good place to get technology related jobs.

Strange like it seemed really traditional. I thought the rich people were snobbish and the poor people really negative.

I’ve never lived there but it seems really high from what I’ve seen in movies and stuff.

Check prices online might work. Also sorry I need to say I haven’t lived in Philly since the eighties. Good Luck!

repost it. I live in Baltimore which is pretty nice by the way.

New Hope, Pa…simply put - Bucks County Pa..outside of Philly. For VA - Charlottesville.

There are books that describe and rate places to live. “Places Rated Almanac” is one, and it has been around a long time. However, reading about a city in a book is not the same as living there.

I also lived in Philly. I found the people to be very rude and offensive. They are also very parochial, thinking that anything outside of Philly is worthless. I hated it and left after a year.

I also lived in Raleigh. There are some nice parts of Raleigh, but it is very segregated, and I don’t mean by race. The native southerners stick together and don’t have anything to do with the transplanted northerners. Also, there are a few industries that are big in the Raleigh area and provide high paying jobs. Outside of those few industries, it can be very hard to find a decent, well paying job. After three years, I left.

I now live in SE Florida. I lived in Fort Lauderdale for two years, and I have been in West Palm Beach for six weeks. I also worked in Miami for a year. It is a strange, strange place! High crime, the different groups stick to themselves, high cost of living, bad drivers, the hot weather gets very old very fast, and hurricanes. Stay out of Florida!

Hope this helped.

I like Baltimore County not Baltimore City because it is high crime. Mount Washington, around Pikesville is where I live and it is pretty decent.

I think most jobs websites like Monster or CareerBuilder will have cost of living tools, so you can compare wages and expenses. Also, some of the larger real estate websites will have wages and housing cost statistics. I live in the South not the Northeast. I love Manhattan but it’s extremely pricey and competitive. Boston is beautiful but housing is outrageously expensive.

Just wondering, why the Northeast? I hate the cold.

Cost of living is a relative factor. In places like New York where the cost of living is high, wages tend to be higher as well. This is more true of professional positions, of course, so the higher cost of living will affect someone like a doctor or executive less than it would someone working in retail, etc.

sum wrote:
yeah thats true but ive never worked a job before either so it gets confusing to me.

You will be looking for an entry level position, and those positions tend to be paid relatively less in areas with high cost of living. Basically, someone in an entry level position is going to earn about the same no matter what city or state he or she works in, so it’s harder to make ends meet in areas like New York where the cost of living is high.

Red Bank New Jersey seemed cool.

sum wrote:
That sucks because the smaller cities are very isolated sometimes so i tend to prefer larger ones =/
maybe living near a large city is better

What do you mean by a “smaller city”? There are plenty of very nice cities in the U.S. that aren’t as big as NYC, Chicago, Boston, etc., but they still are fairly big and have a lot to offer.

I just remembered a great site, City Data. This site has all kinds of information about both the larger and smaller metropolitan areas in the U.S., including cost of living ratios. City Data also has city specific forums, so if you have a question about a particular area, you can go to that area’s forum and ask your question. Check it out:

http://www.city-data.com/