Which is your preferred environment?

  • FigNewtonsYum6OP
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    There are lots of towns like you describe in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic! Like actual towns, not suburbs, that are in the orbit of larger cities. That style of development is generally restricted to older parts of the country only, unfortunately :/

    • UnfortunatelyAlex
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      yeah. i live in the midwest, great lakes area. and i like the idea of living here, but the reality is awful. there could be so much infrastructure developed around Chicago as like a big regional center with trains and shit but theres just nothing but highways and farmland.

      id like to live in the north east but its expensive. idk

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        More expensive, but you get paid more (although that doesn’t always offset the higher cost of living). There are some cities in that region that still aren’t kooky crazy banana beans expensive though, take a look at Buffalo, Rochester, Hartford, Providence, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

        • UnfortunatelyAlex
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          Buffalo is actually where ive looked the most since its basically midwest (great lakes at least) still 😭

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            It’s not a bad place, you just have to be ready for some absolutely crushing winters! Plus, you’d be close to Toronto, which is wonderful city in and of itself.

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              oh im used to lake effect snow and cold winters already. another reason why buffalo is top of my list. i love winter and snow