Cities covet young urban single professionals

USA Today ^ | Dec. 17, 2003 | Laura Vanderkam

[XRdsRev]

Thanks for the kind invite but I've been west, it was very nice to visit but I prefer to live on the East Coast.

I reside in an area where on a short drive you'll see buildings from the late 1600's to modern. You'll pass homes where George Washington headquartered and fields where his army fought for independance.

Within an hour, I can be in New York City, an Atlantic beach, picking apples in a Hunterdon orchard or scaling a mountain in the Appalachians. I can go to the hottest new club or poke around an outdoor antique market. I can go to the Museum of Naural History in NYC, a rodeo in southern NJ, or a Nascar race in Pa. and be back at my home in time for dinner. I can ski in the Poconos one weekend and take a boat out deep sea fishing the next and still sleep in my own bed each night if I want too. For dinner, a quick call and a short drive gets me Italian, Indian, Thai, Chinese, German, Polish, Mexican, Salvadoran, Bar B Cue, French, or any other foreign or American cuisine I want. I can hop in the car for a burger or dress up and take my pick of hundreds of 4 or 5 star restaraunts, all within 30 miles of my house. I can go to the opera one night and a hardcore punk show the next. I can buy a $2 wastebasket at Walmart and then take a short drive to browse the $20,000 Rolex's at Short Hills. I can climb up the hill near my house and see the skyline of NYC with my binoculars and then stand in my backyard and watch a 12 point buck munching my neighbors expensive shrubs hahaha. If I get bored here, then it's my own fault.

Life here is very cool and I wouldn't trade it for the world but then again as long as we are all happy where we are, that is all that matters.

Have a good one.

[Dialup Llama]

>We've figured it out. It's just that we don't care. It's tough to find a job in Topeka that pays $165,000 right out of law school.

You better bank that because your boss speads every day trying to figure out if he/she can send your job to India.

[Modernman]

You better bank that because your boss speads every day trying to figure out if he/she can send your job to India.

I think the law is one area that's fairly immune to outsourcing to India, thankfully.

[RikaStrom]

I'm not exactly cityfolk.....

Me neither, I live here because I can't escape!

[GrandMoM]

....it must be in the 70's here. I am outside hanging Christmas lights and had to take my jacket off. Yes, I know they should have been hung long ago, but, I had company from Dec. 8th till yesterday!!!!!!! Geeeeezzzeee!!!!!!

[CalKat]

Sometimes, especially in the winter, I look around and think that it can't get much better than this.

[GrandMoM]

Sometimes, especially in the winter, I look around and think that it can't get much better than this.

....my brother who was visiting me is just about to land in Michigan where it is 15 degrees with snow flurries and 3 ft of snow.

....Yes, we are real lucky!!!!

[laurav]

According to the op-ed, few people wish to be for long :)

[laurav]

Sure, single-mom families tend to be a drain on social services, but plenty of two-parent families are too -- if they have kids in the public schools. Governments aren't thrilled about kids in the fiscal sense precisely because it's at least $6,000 per kid. Few 2-3 kid families pay $12-18k a year in local taxes. Now, society as a whole has decided it is worth it to spread that cost to educate everyone. But that doesn't stop local officials from trying to work the system as best they can.