When I looked at living in London I did not expect a Single family home, or even a terraced house. My expectation was a apartment, or even a room. And I was willing to pay a lot for that room. Because it was ‘London’.
But London isn’t the entirety of the UK. People in smaller cities might very well expect to live in a house by age 30 or so.
Same as New York. Many people live in apartments here, but people in Water Gap, PA are more likely to own a house.
B…but…the Internet was supposed to remove the importance of place.
DC has gone up in price in the last 15 years, but NYC and SF have been expensive since at least the 90s. I recall my sister wanting to move to SF after college and complaining about it being more expensive than New York.
And NY was never cheap. My father said he paid $500/mo for a 2-bedroom near Columbia University around 1970. Not the safest area at the time — local yoots would sit on their steps with baseball bats and watch for people from further uptown, so to speak. That’s probably equivalent to about $2500/mo right now.
The pictures I saw of Celebration remind me a bit of Coronado.
Frankly, I’m more of a Brooklyn/upper Manhattan guy than a fan of tall buildings. If I can’t walk down to the street, I feel trapped. Maybe if I had a giant balcony…
What’s wrong with giving advice, even if it’s outside people’s usual comfort zone? If it’s outside the comfort zone, many people won’t think about it, so it’s valid.
While teaching may be a rewarding career, I can’t fathom a real engineer getting any job satisfaction from teaching HS kids
One can still do engineering, on their own time. A 9-5 job doesn’t have to be ALL that you do. Also, if the school has money, you can end up playing with some really cool toys, and having students play with those toys as well.
Plenty of brilliant people worked as a teacher or a patent clerk and did amazing work on the side.
Translation: he doesn’t deal well with idiots who deserve a smacking. I bet he’s having more fun teaching (and has more time on the side to pursue his own projects) than working as a corporate slave.
