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Old 01-09-2024, 11:54 AM
 
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Most people arent looking for a 5 bed/4 bath house...some people just want a 3 bedroom house and in the Boston area it's hard to find much of anything for under 650k. I've seen two bedroom homes in nicer towns go for 750k+.

Since you mentioned Atlanta suburbs, here's a house I came across in Decatur, GA which is considered a nice suburb:

https://www.redfin.com/GA/Decatur/13.../home/23816990
Seeing that you can get a house like that for $489K makes me want to move to Atlanta! I'll even leave the snow shovels as a housewarming gift for the new owners at my house here! lol That same house in any semi desirable town in MA would easily be like $700K min.
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Old 01-09-2024, 11:56 AM
 
Location: The ghetto
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Boston population: 650k
Boston homicides: 37 in 2023, and 40 in 2022

Atlanta population: 490k
Atlanta homicides: 135 in 2023, and 171 in 2022
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Old 01-09-2024, 12:08 PM
 
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The thing is...not everything is equal. Generally speaking, paychecks are less. Quality of life is also less in an Atlanta suburb.

For some people it may work, but others would not be satisfied.

I did a bunch of business in the 'burbs north and northeast of Atlanta. Cox Cable, Arris/Commscope, Broadcom, Cisco-Scientific Atlanta. If you haven't been there, it's pretty upscale. I don't think much of downtown Atlanta but where all the tech is located is pretty posh. You have your usual Lamborghini and Ferrari dealerships. High density of luxury sedans and luxury crossovers. Premium retail. The usual percentage of Asian/Indian you find in most tech places. I don't think I'd want to get into a pissing contest between Boston suburbs and Atlanta suburbs. It's not a huge gap. I don't want to live there but it's not like being condemned to backwater Mississippi.
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Old 01-09-2024, 12:18 PM
 
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The thing is...not everything is equal. Generally speaking, paychecks are less. Quality of life is also less in an Atlanta suburb.

For some people it may work, but others would not be satisfied.
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I did a bunch of business in the 'burbs north and northeast of Atlanta. Cox Cable, Arris/Commscope, Broadcom, Cisco-Scientific Atlanta. If you haven't been there, it's pretty upscale. I don't think much of downtown Atlanta but where all the tech is located is pretty posh. You have your usual Lamborghini and Ferrari dealerships. High density of luxury sedans and luxury crossovers. Premium retail. The usual percentage of Asian/Indian you find in most tech places. I don't think I'd want to get into a pissing contest between Boston suburbs and Atlanta suburbs. It's not a huge gap. I don't want to live there but it's not like being condemned to backwater Mississippi.
Me either. Ditto for a lot of people.
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Old 01-09-2024, 02:05 PM
 
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I've been in MA for 14 yrs and am happy here. I've been happy wherever I was. That said, I stay for:

My career. Boston has been good to me careerwise.
Education (I have a 16yr old).
I complain sometimes but I like the weather (the pronounced seasons are great).

Iif I had to rent I can't see me being here long term. I'm not super attached though and would go somewhere else if I felt it was better but i am happy and have no plans to leave. I built a satisfying life with a good balance, my wife has too.
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Old 01-09-2024, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Columbia SC
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I left Boston in 1970 for a job. I moved about the country for the next 15 years. I was not anxious to go back to Boston but a company made me an attractive offer. My wife also was recruiter by the Comm. of MA into an upper level management position and I bought a small business. We knew we would retire south but we assumed around 2005 when my wife would have her 20 in the the state. In 2000 the state made my wife offered my wife an attractive early retirement package. She took it but the state hired her back as a consultant on a 1099 for a year doing the same job. In that year I found a buyer for my business so we let MA in 2000 for SC. We made a killing when we sold our home. Enough so that we bought a new construction home in SC and paid cash for it. Retired at 62 and was mortgage free.

While I love the Boston area, I would not return due to winter and a high COL.
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Old 01-09-2024, 03:17 PM
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While I love the Boston area, I would not return due to winter and a high COL.
Thanks to global warming winters in the near future may not be as bad as before, e.g., see here.
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Old 01-09-2024, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Newburyport, MA
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Thanks to global warming winters in the near future may not be as bad as before, e.g., see here.
Yes, and summers, which were already the difficult season in the South, will only become more difficult in the years ahead.
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Old 01-09-2024, 03:50 PM
 
Location: The ghetto
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yes. It would be amazing to have a home like that one outside Atlanta for 500k....so I do see why people leave. A nice home that doesn't take up so much of a paycheck is you know...important to people.
Duxbury, MA

Crime Rate (per 1,000 residents) is 2.79

Safer than 88% of U.S. neighborhoods.


Decatur, GA

Crime Rate (per 1,000 residents) is 26.90

Safer than 13% of U.S. neighborhoods.



Good luck!
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Old 01-09-2024, 04:01 PM
 
Location: The ghetto
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Decatur, GA

Crime Rate (per 1,000 residents) is 26.90

Safer than 13% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Brockton, MA

Crime Rate (per 1,000 residents) is 22.20

Safer than 19% of U.S. neighborhoods.


New Bedford, MA

Crime Rate (per 1,000 residents) is 22.53

Safer than 18% of U.S. neighborhoods.


Fall River, MA

Crime Rate (per 1,000 residents) is 18.96

Safer than 24% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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