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Originally Posted by KSigkid
ETA: I'll give you an example in my area of the country. If you were to ask about a good salary in New England, you would get a far different answer for people living in Boston than for people in Nashua, NH. You'd even get far different answers within a city - the cost of living in Jamaica Plain (right next to Boston, practically a part of Boston) is less than the cost of living in downtown Boston. It's the same for parts of Hartford if you're talking about CT salaries.
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Agreed! I grew up in Nashua, and while the cost of living might be a little higher than other areas of the country, it doesn't even compare to Boston.
Relate that to where I'm living now. I'm working as a paralegal, and while offers right out of college might start at 30 - 40,000 at a Boston firm, in Erie, PA, I started mid-20,000. But this makes sense for where I am, for reasons such as...
...A decent 1 bedroom apartment in Nashua, in a nice neighborhood probably wouldn't be much less than $800 to start, and probably higher. But here in Erie, I'm paying $420 a month + electric bringing me to between 480 and 500 a month. And downtown Boston is in a league of its own.
It truly is a difficult question to answer. Especially because most people on this board aren't from that area. If you want to get good results, ask people who live in and around the DC area. Because if you ask a bunch of people from all over the country, you're going to receive answers that vary a great deal.
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