You can live pretty much anywhere on that income. Look, I make high double digits and I can live in most parts of town and put away cash.

Legit, every post that's like "I'm not sure if I can make it here on $120k a year" just seems like a humble brag at this point and is kinda irritating. I mean if you think $2500 a month is "affordable," you really can live anywhere

My building in the South End does. They're actually pretty common bar in recently renovated places

They're hiring for the future Boston location for designers if you're curious

I want a Back Bay Station set, complete with smoldering orange line cars

"Build the station! Build the T cars! Hey..!!!"

>Companies insisting on putting their HQs in the most expensive neighborhoods of the most expensive city in the country then refusing to pay workers enough to live anywhere near the office really grinds my gears.

What a relief Lego is dedicated to its humanitarian mission by moving to Boston instead of Manhattan! Truly looking out for the little guy... er... minifigure!

"Lego Investing is Booming" -WSJ

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You don't typically check luggage on trains unless you're on one of the overnight ones (which is NOT the train from Boston to NYC). Really the biggest concern actually is just getting a seat (unless you're on the Acela where you're assigned), which I've learned from making the trip several times a year for close to a decade at this point. Peak times on the NE Regional (holidays, weekends) are brutal.

1.75x octomom? Geez- props to you

that's a lotta buns in the oven... assuming you're making at least a half dozen cinnamon rolls here of course

That sucks man. Get better soon

Debated that all week, then cracked at the last minute and bought tickets to go back to Queens where I type at this moment

Uhhh... you're making a six figure salary. You can live comfortably here on a fraction of that... I'm doing it. Granted, I'm in a studio, but I walk to work and am paying somewhere around 25% or so gross. Particularly if you're not in the city center, that's fine for a salary. I have friends making 70s who have their own condos.

Posts like this where people are worried about COL with some salary putting them in the top 5% of earners really do come off as humble brags. I'll assume it's unintended in this case but it can really come off as obnoxious

Well, I'm a short white guy who neither went to Harvard nor is a biotech professional. And really didn't have any shortage of dating opportunities back when I was single. As I said, most women I met were just career oriented and things wouldn't pan out because they were super focused on whatever life goal they were working towards. Wasn't an issue of the size of my bankbook or degree- seemed they just cared that I was focused professionally and reasonably intelligent.

By contrast in NYC local women in the boroughs were down to earth and homely, but the transplants there to "make it" seemed to be super status conscious and obsessed with someone to make their friends on social media jealous

Really? Tbh, I came here from NYC and found Boston's dating scene to be way easier when I was single. Here most women I was meeting were just going for advanced degrees at the local universities or professionals and just swamped with whatever they were working towards. Could come off cold because of that, but not in a nasty way- just seemed pretty much every woman was insanely busy with her career or educational goals, and getting in a relationship was something they wanted but also didn't feel they could dedicate all their time to. On the flip side, back in NYC my options were either people who grew up outside the city coming to Manhattan or Brooklyn that no matter how they looked seemed to think they were worthy of a male model with a Wall St. exec salary, or in the outer boroughs where I was from just girls from the various ethnic enclaves looking for someone whom their parents would like so they could buy a house two blocks away from them before their 30s.

For what it's worth, both NYC and Boston have a gender imbalance with more women than men. Boston is worse though- figuring that's exacerbated by how heavily educated the population is- figure BU alone is 60% women. Whether or not women come off as if it's a tighter market for them is another story. But personally, I never found it all that tough here, particularly as a guy that was going for a professional degree and with career ambitions before I met my girlfriend. Seemed like women were generally just thrilled if you would go to museums with them or could hold an articulate conversation

Think it depends what you have for a downpayment. I sold some stock off before the COVID crash and held in cash since, and have toned down how much I'm throwing in the market given how topsy turvy it is. Just watching to see at what point people start cutting prices for condos- I can tolerate a higher interest rate if they come down enough since I have a pretty healthy downpayment ready.

In short, if you're buying right now you're doing it in cash. Although point taken on braving it- even if you have cash, it's a waiting game since I don't think we're anywhere close to bottoming out on any price cuts. I'm slowly starting to see them now- seems people just let stuff sit on the market for longer and longer and have been avoiding price cuts. We'll see if/when any cuts become more than just a trickle

Admittedly, as someone voting "no" on 4 I was shocked it was so close- thought it was going to be 65/35 "yes." Personally know a bunch of people voting "no" on it, but figured it was because I'm surrounded by people in construction daily and that I was in a bubble.

Question 1 being as close as it was struck me as even crazier- even Trump type populists seem happy to tax millionaires into oblivion (even as their guy did anything but)

So she had a bunch of high paid consultants come up with a broad study suggesting uses for downtown... well, problem solved