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You could. Lots of people do things like that. You could also live near public transportation that might change the definition of "near" for some workers. I per

• mavelikara 4y ago
  > I personally have never gotten a new job in the same city as my last. If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?
  • sokoloff 4y ago
    Not GP, but I'm 51, been working in tech since I was 21 and, though all my jobs have been within about 50 miles of each other, none has been in the same city as the previous either. The closest sequential pairing of jobs was 3.5 miles apart.
    • mavelikara 4y ago
      Do you move when you take different jobs, as the ggreer had asked above in the thread?
      • sokoloff 4y ago
        No, but that's because I don't have to because I drive to work*, in contravention to Terretta's suggestion "if people could live above or around (walkable distance even in bad weather) where they work...The automobile society notion of residential far from workplace is just bad." * One of those jobs was close enough to walk (1.1 miles). I would regularly walk that commute, in most anything less than hellish rain or heavy snow. But that means that my previous job from that residence was 2.7 miles away, which isn't nearly as practical to walk year-round in New England.