What is the purpose of living in a big city?
Yes you earn maybe 20-30% more but your cost of living is that much higher as well.
What is the purpose of living in a big city?
Jackson Garcia
Thomas Edwards
The hustle and bustle
Ian Lopez
>DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favorite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!
Robert Gonzalez
>hustle and bustle
>exposed brick walls
>dynamic
>makes you feel like you're in one of your favorite tv shows
>barcades
>craft beers
Jackson Campbell
If you have a higher than normal paying job (relative to other city residents) in a big city its high IQ.
>live in city for a decade
>more likely to make connections with people who have many
>could easily save up a few million over a decade if you do it right
>everything you need is in walking distance
>get your hot trophy wife from the city
>turn 30-40
>take everything and buy a mansion that is pennies to you in suburbs
>retire at 40 and live off dividends and city connections
Its only worth it if you mean something there. Everyone else are cattle unknowingly working simply to benefit you.
Angel Thompson
Can scam and steal without getting caught. Sex, drugs, fun. Haven't paid rent in 3 years and quit working a year ago. I can fuck 8 fig net worth 30 something chads and live in their houses. I can talk to 40 somethings and they'll buy me whatever. The women here are entitled trash though, stay away from city girls.
Grayson Taylor
Sex is the real reason people live in cities. Or at least potential access to sex. Pretty hard finding a good girl in backwater meth country.
Alexander Taylor
Some people want to enrich their mindset by living together with people from different cultures. Not everyone is gonna be ok living all of their life in a town stuck in the 50s out in the middle of nowhere.
Nathan Lopez
Kek this pasta never gets old
Nathan Phillips
For business and developing a career. I think a proper big city is a no-brainer
In the case of business:
Access to top talent for hire, capital for raising
(Try hiring top talent in Alabama)
In the case of developing a career:
Working with other talented people, learning from them
(Then you can move to a lesser city and make it by being the top talent in that city)
There's really no downside in trying it out for 5 years to build something or become one of the best in your field
Christian Gonzalez
Jaxson Mitchell
Sorry you can't afford it
Christian Collins
Connections
Anonymity (just a face in the crowd) allows for more experimenting socially imo. I was able to work on my personality without tanking my reputation
Job access - I actually commute to the suburbs rn, found a sick job in crypto in the weirdest place i never would have found if I didn't live in the "hub" here
Challenges - diversity, crazies, snobs, Chads, freakishly talented people. Gotta make a way
More restaurants and bars - inb4 lovers say this totally isn't that cool
More women
One problem is if you do too well there's a lot of vices. Just need to stay down to earth.
Michael Lopez
>Try hiring top talent in Alabama
Huntsville would like a word with you.
Austin Lee
yeah, whatever you know what I mean basically. And that's only for computer security, your example
Jonathan Lewis
>party
>have sex
>tons of places to work
Luis Nguyen
Cities are the center of the economy and you can scream as much as you can but the tertiary sector is real.
Jaxson Johnson
Cities are as large and populous as they are because they are at the intersection of geography, technology, and economic reality. They are places that historically, have been really good places to set up shop. And while the largest metropolises may be unlivable due to the financialization of the economy, the point remains that they have a privileged draw on human resources.
I know everyone on this board works 4 hours a year in their 500k WFH gig, but lets put aside the obvious zoomer larps for second. If you work in meat space, and you do anything technical (be it in research, a start up, a hospital with actual resources, or a bigass corporate firm) or you work in the trades (because the highest demand for welders, plumbers, HVAC, and electricians is where population density is highest), your opportunities will be found in a city or its periphery. I don't like this, I wish is wasn't so, and I hope to move my family out to the boonies of Kentucky once my investments can provide enough passive income, but it is the reality of the geographic accumulation of capital and talent.
Anthony Harris
I hate waging and i'm incel.
Nathan Allen
no car no dui and more city girls than city boys
Ryan Cook
The highest demand for trades (and definitely not the money, not even close) is in the city. There’s no guarantee a residential electrician, plumber, hvac tech, etc will do better in a more populated area. Now as for the real trades? Power engineering, instrumentation, industrial electricians, etc the last place on earth you want to be is in a city.
Julian Parker
Not* in the city