double your salary?

[dingbat]

Re: double your salary?

My siblings and I were fortunate enough that my parents saw the collapse of the manufacturing base in the Midwest, Ohio in particular, early on. They picked up, leaving 3 generations of family and friends behind and moved us to a sleepy little town on the Potomac with the promise of unlimited growth opportunities.

Forty years later, that sleepy little town on the Potomac is an economic powerhouse and we are magnitudes ahead, educationally, financially and socially of those we left behind.

Given the same situation, would you sacrifice living close to family and friends for the betterment of your immediate family?

 

[jkust]

Re: double your salary?

My siblings and I were fortunate enough that my parents saw the collapse of the manufacturing base in the Midwest, Ohio in particular, early on. They picked up, leaving 3 generations of family and friends behind and moved us to a sleepy little town on the Potomac with the promise of unlimited growth opportunities.

Forty years later, that sleepy little town on the Potomac is an economic powerhouse and we are magnitudes ahead, educationally, financially and socially of those we left behind.


Given the same situation, would you sacrifice living close to family and friends for the betterment of your immediate family?

Well changing the paradigm, presuming the schools were bad, I was in some other type of carreer, life wasn't panning out, etc, then the answer would possibly change. The difficult thing is that nobody leaves MN once it has you (like Bangkok in The Hangover 2). The standard of living is so good here It would be hard to change my thinking. I have to thank my relatives that when they got off the boat, they came here.

 

[QC]

Re: double your salary?

The first was to transfer to our office in La Jolla, California. While I liked the weather, I wasn’t impressed with the area as a whole.

Wow, tough customer. Stay put, La Jolla has attracted some pretty big fish (I mean the human ones with money, but there is decent fishing there too)