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[conquestor]

So i have just about everything I wtant. A job where I work over link's parents (they're developers I'm performance lab), a good car, easy to pay off loans.... I'm basically set for life.... or not. Apparently NJ's air quality is too shitty for my girlfriend who has copd, so we're moving to north Carolina. Instead of working at the worlds largest financial processor doing database micro tuning and penetration @editing, I'm going to work for a company that does sales demographics for cabinets... the company has 19 other people, and its not on the market, and ill probably have a significant pay cut.

[PanRouge]

Moving for the gf, eh? Maybe you should get her on some meds or live long distance for a bit while you save up cash...

You know... considering the future of EA...

[conquestor]

I have enough to buy a house without the money in ea. Also, their slump is because of social shit, and being rated as the worst company in the world (yesssss). Temporary, but j don't know how long social things like that last.

[CmdrNate]

I have enough to buy a house without the money in ea. Also, their slump is because of social shit, and being rated as the worst company in the world (yesssss). Temporary, but j don't know how long social things like that last.

Wait.

You have loans, yet you have enough to buy a house (Perhaps just a downy)? And you've got 16k tied up in EA? Are you holding onto those "easy to pay off loans" whilst having all this expendable cash? (You say you wanted the Tesla, I'll assume you went for something more reasonable)...

How do you have this money to blow? I just don't see you having worked long enough to be able to afford this on your own dime?

[disco]

He's probably rich as fuck. Also, house prices in the south are impressively low because the south way, way over-built up to the recession, so even if he doesn't have 7 figures in the bank he could probably buy a house.

That said, NC isn't a complete backwater. I mean para lives there. There's got to be some company that isn't selling goddamn cabinets which needs IT monkies.

[PanRouge]

Houses are cheap in the south because they're built fuck-all cheaply. Good luck finding one with proper insulation and a good roof! I don't care where you live, if the temp goes below 40 degrees or above 85, you better be insulating to keep heating and cooling costs down. I can feel the cold through my current floor. At my old place, you could almost see outside when looking under the kitchen sink.

[conquestor]

Wait.

You have loans, yet you have enough to buy a house (Perhaps just a downy)? And you've got 16k tied up in EA? Are you holding onto those "easy to pay off loans" whilst having all this expendable cash? (You say you wanted the Tesla, I'll assume you went for something more reasonable)...

How do you have this money to blow? I just don't see you having worked long enough to be able to afford this on your own dime?

I still have my student loans I'm paying off (Paying double to pay them off faster, but they're consolidated). I meant a good down payment on a house. I also split my student loans with my parents btw.

I have around $30k I've saved for a tesla. Until my build order's done, I got a Dodge avenger lux (23k~). I was going to sell the dodge and buy a tesla, but I may end up just using the 40k for a down payment.... I don't know. I really fucking want the car though, so we may just live in an apartment for a few months instead. I'm not sure yet.

And disco, they make software which tracks and analyzes sales states and characteristics of cabinets. They want someone to develop the software to expand the product, and do database tuning. Their product is a web application basically, and they have performance complaints. That would be my role.

[disco]

I believe a few banks have HQ's in charlotte. I think Wachovia did, at least. There is a significant financial presence there, if you're interested in working for finance-related institutions.

[MoP]

Deutsche bank is there. North carolina is indeed a financial technology center. IBM is there as well I think. Sure you get a pay cut but it's a lot cheaper to live there, and isn't the armpit of america.

[Melody of Chaos]

Is the girl really worth it? You are making bank just by working and having zero living expenses. (Also living with a girl is not the same as seeing her once a week.)

[Paradoxex]

So where in North Carolina are you going?

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill is a hip place to be, literally speaking. College town atmosphere, some density in a downtown, and suburban house prices all within a small area. Charlotte has banks...as has been noted (Deutsche Bank!? You lead with that? How about Bank of America is HQ'ed there!) and some medical technology. Outside of those two areas the state is more rural. That said, Wilmington and the Outer Banks are gorgeous, and Asheville is a national gem in and of itself.

There are worse places to go.

By the way, I now live in North Bethesda, Maryland. I did grow up in North Carolina, though.

[PanRouge]

If she's really worth it, put a ring on it.

[Carny]

If she's really worth it, put a ring on it.

I second this. cock rings really show her she's appreciated.

[disco]

If she's really worth it, put a ring on it.

I agree with this. Put a large metal object around her, chain it to the ground, and make sure it puts the lotion on its skin.

[Wingnut]

Why don't you just move to South Jersey? Might be a bit longer of a drive to where you work but once you get south of Camden the air isn't to bad..

[conquestor]

Why don't you just move to South Jersey? Might be a bit longer of a drive to where you work but once you get south of Camden the air isn't to bad..

NC has way cheaper expenses though. I hate the commute as it is (1 hour).

Para: I'm moving to Charlotte. I actually got a job offer from IBM as a jmeter performance engineer for IBM web sphere and mq suite. Id rather work for the same amount of money for a smaller non public company. The place ill be working for (just passed technical interview, they said they were impressed with my interview and test). Face to face interview is on friday, which is the last one.

Pan: we're getting an apartment. If we like each other after a few months we'll buy a house. If we like each other for a year or so after that, I will.

Link: yeah I'm taking a 30% pay cut I think. And getting a fuckton of expenses. Oh well, I don't doubt my ability to get another really good job after a bit of searching in the area. Ill be moving in a few weeks.

[Melody of Chaos]

lol, alright, just gonna warn you, girls are fucking evil. They will drain your time and money and won't feel bad doing it. They will guilt trip you into wasting your time and money on them because they are evil. You just have to understand that girls are evil.

Not all of them. Like 99.9% of them.

Right now you can easily become what you want, you stay with her, you'll be a family man with sorta enough income.

[MoP]

You could make more money in Northern Virginia btw, the air quality isn't bad here. You just have to go the clearance route most likely, and it's not terribly expensive if you get a job that you can commute to from the western parts of Fairfax.

But yeah, the federal government throws money at this area.If you were making 95k in NY, I'd say you can prob make 75-80k here asap if not more, and maybe get a mortgage that costs 1200 a month. My commute is only 10 minutes.

[Carny]

You could make more money in Northern Virginia btw, the air quality isn't bad here. You just have to go the clearance route most likely, and it's not terribly expensive if you get a job that you can commute to from the western parts of Fairfax.

But yeah, the federal government throws money at this area.If you were making 95k in NY, I'd say you can prob make 75-80k here asap if not more, and maybe get a mortgage that costs 1200 a month. My commute is only 10 minutes.

According to cost of living via http://www.bankrate....alculator.aspx. 90K in NY is worth 37K in Charlotte. I can't find salary equivalents between the 2 places, but it's looking like id rather fly to and from work every day . I bet you could get a deal with an airline to fly for aprox $150 round trip. This puts you at 40K a year.I dont know your salary range, but if theres a 40K diff in pay, you can fly to NY and maybe make more money

I know as a biomedical PhD it is almost always worth living in the cheaper area. NY might pay me $160K a year, cost of living +47% higher. Atlanta pays me 122K is +12%
Thus, id need my NY salary to be 35% higher, but its only 24% higher. Things change a bit if I want a long commute and am willing to live way outside of NY, turns out to be exact equal pay adjust to cost of living. However, in atlanta i can live right fucking there.

Sounds like you arent trying to make any decision, but good chance you have more "money" living in NC than NY

[disco]

MoP, the price of living in NoVa is horrendous, don't pretend otherwise. Fairfax, the county you just mentioned, has an average income of 6 figures. Average. I believe its in the top 5 in the country.

Also, rents here are skyrocketing and the real estate market is quite arguably near the peak of a bubble. This is one of the last places I'd consider buying a house / condo in. Rent where I live (Old Town) has gone up ~30-40% since 2008, and real estate values in the area, extending as far as Baltimore, have increased since the crash - one of the only places in the country where that's happened. It can't continue, and it won't once government austerity kicks in.

When 2012 hits, if a Republican gets elected, cuts to government spending are going to have a decisive and sudden impact on this area. Alexandria, for example, has (I recall) 40% of its residents employed either by DoD or contracting by DoD. Dat spending cut is going to reduce their numbers, quickly. Even Democrats are planning on moderate to significant cuts.

So you can move here and ride the wave if you'd like, but I wouldn't invest in real estate by any means here.