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I worked with two developers in Boston who were DINK (Double Income No Kids) and they sold their Boston condo, moved to the Midwest (Minneapolis) and bought a s
by swashboon 6y ago
I worked with two developers in Boston who were DINK (Double Income No Kids) and they sold their Boston condo, moved to the Midwest (Minneapolis) and bought a six bedroom house on a lake and two jet-skis for the same price as their condo. Their cost of living went down tremendously. By their own standards they lost nothing compared to Boston (food/services/entertainment actually got better) except that they had to deal with people on the Coast saying how boring it must be - scratch that - they weren't listening because they were having to much fun on their jet-skis...
- jrockway 6y agoNot that winter in Boston is particularly pleasant, but I feel like the jetskis are going to be a lot less fun when it's -40 out.
- samschooler 6y agoTrade out jetskis for snowmobiles my friend
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- myself248 6y agoJetskis in summer, snowmobiles in winter. Bass boat in the summer, ice-fishing shanty in winter. Hiking in summer, hiking wearing more layers in winter. We do just fine. :)
- davidf18 6y agoMinneapolis is unbearable during the Winters. It is so cold you have to plug cars into outlets to keep the oil warm. They have underground tunnels between shopping malls, etc. I lived in Boston and it is a much, much nicer environment.
- vdnkh 6y agoThis is a very consumerist world view (get big house, get fun toys) that not everyone believes in. I choose to live in a more vibrant city where I essentially trade my money for opportunity, experiences, and community.
- iancmceachern 6y agoAnd weather where you can enjoy the outdoors more than 3 months a year.
- oblongx 6y agoto each their own I suppose
- mountainb 6y agoVersus the highly spiritual experience of living in the pod, eating the bugs, paying the $4,500 every month to the landlord of the one bedroom, answering e-mails at 11:24 pm to be able to pay for it etc.
- ethanbond 6y agoYou oughta go to a better city. Also, non-consumerist does not imply spiritual.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoEvery growing city right now is going to be like that though. Block-after-block of Chipotle, Jamba Juice, and Whole Foods, 5 story apartment buildings with ground floor occupied only by the aforementioned.
- lavishlatern 6y agoA 6br lakefront house in Minneapolis is just as expensive as a nice condo in Boston (op literally notes they spent the same amount).
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- ericye16 6y agoWhat do two developers who are DINK need 6 bedrooms for? Genuinely curious.
- stagger87 6y agoWho said they needed 6 bedrooms?
- swashboon 6y agothey each had home offices and they were "centrally" located for family gatherings. mostly they just wanted the location.
- user5994461 6y ago1 bedroom for them + 2 bedrooms for the future kids + 2 rooms for office/storage/miscellaneous. It's really not hard to find use for rooms.
- leetcrew 6y agoI don't think DINK implies a lack of desire for children, rather the current state of not having any (and consequently a large amount of disposable income). in my experience, people with large incomes often have more rooms in their house than they actually need for day-to-day life. sometimes it's just a flex, but often they expect to host their extended family and/or friends (and even their families) over the holidays. nobody needs a second kitchen and four extra bedrooms, but it does make bringing the whole family together under one roof a lot less tense.
- nunez 6y ago1 bedroom for themselves, 2 offices, 3 cat rooms, one spare
- tzs 6y agoI live alone and managed to find uses for 3, and I sleep on a couch in the living room, so am not using a bedroom for a bed. If I slept on a bed, I'd be able to make use of 4 bedrooms. One is an exercise room. It's the first photo here [1]. The one in the second photo is the electronics and music room. Table on the left for my electronics stuff, and piano on the right (and guitars out of frame on the right, along with a bookshelf full of music books). Third bedroom is the library, covered by the next two photos. 10 bookshelves. I could easily see two developers use 6 bedrooms. 1 for sleeping, 1 for a library, 1 for exercise, 1 for a join hobby for interest, and 1 for each for a hobby or interest that the other doesn't share...and that's without even considering using a bedroom as a dedicated office for working from home. [1] https://imgur.com/a/lVmMv86 https://imgur.com/a/lVmMv86
- pavlov 6y agoWhy does a childless couple need six bedrooms? They must have a lot of guests coming to Minneapolis.
- hardwaregeek 6y agoI'm skeptical that the food/services/entertainment is actually better. What's the Asian food scene in Minneapolis? Can you get Sichuan, Hunan, Henan, and Yunnan or is it just that one Sichuan place? How about the movie theaters or theaters? I went from New York to Seattle and finding a theater that showed non-blockbusters was really hard. When I did find one, they were always three months behind New York. If I wanted to watch, say, Parasite, when could I do that? Four, five months after New York? There's definitely some appeal to Minneapolis. You can't rent a jetski in New York and you certainly can't afford a mansion. But you also can't watch the latest Palm D'Or and get Yunnan noodles in Minneapolis.
- strictnein 6y agoThere are well known theaters in Minneapolis that focus on indie films. The restaurant scene regularly wins James Beard awards. Asian food seems to lean more Korean, Vietnamese (possibly from the large Hmong population in the state), and Thai. Also, it would be hard to sound more pretentious.
- hardwaregeek 6y agoHaha fair. I realize I sound very elitist there. Apologies. I agree that Minneapolis probably has wonderful theaters, food and other attractions, but I am skeptical that they're better than Boston or New York.
- CharlesLincoln 6y agoFor theatres the Twin Cities have the second most theatres per capita behind only New York City. https://www.pastemagazine.com/theatre/best-theatre-cities-in-the-us/ https://www.pastemagazine.com/theatre/best-theatre-cities-in...
- renewiltord 6y agoWell, I think that's just a mismatch in your desire vectors. A couple I know moved to Austin and the guy visited me recently in SF. He was just so happy to be able to eat all the Asian food here. I'm like him as well: I'd like a variety of cuisine that is actually simply not available in most places in America. I also want to be close to major airports, live in a highly ethnically diverse place, the ocean, and a general non-authoritarian vibe. If I lived in the Midwest I'm probably not going to be hyper thrilled. My genuine hope is that people who don't want the things I do go to places where they're happy. Jobs being located where I want to live actually harms my overall QoL. Anyway, I hope the dot product of feature availability and desire rise for places that are not San Francisco.
- curiousllama 6y agoFor those jealous: they probably could use their jetskis from mid June to the late August, and stored them the rest of the year. Minnesota is cold.
- ryathal 6y agoThen you just switch to snowmobiles...
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>I worked with two developers in Boston who were DINK (Double Income No Kids) and they sold their Boston condo, moved to the Midwest (Minneapolis) and bought a six bedroom house on a lake and two jet-skis for the same price as their condo. Their cost of living went down tremendously. By their own standards they lost nothing compared to Boston (food/services/entertainment actually got better) except that they had to deal with people on the Coast saying how boring it must be. Not understanding that other people might not want to live exactly the way you do is probably the most stereotypical Massachusetts thing ever.