Personally I'd rather experience living somewhere in Europe for a year or two. See if you can pull that off. Certainly no harm done living in NYC for two years

Personally I'd rather experience living somewhere in Europe for a year or two. See if you can pull that off. Certainly no harm done living in NYC for two years especially if you come with a job lined up. It will definitely make you a bit more street smart and more adaptable, I think. As far as settling down permanently and raising a family, nope. One good thing is that living in NYC, for the first time I didn't feel like a minority. It's so different to most of the rest of the US. There is no majority "in charge" of the place. I think that was an important experience for me. I don't regret living there, but I wish I left sooner. Edit: if your career is, and always will be, extremely important to you, and you have a good position with lots of potential to move up, and you are workaholic type, you will probably love it.