Houston sucks. (No offense to Kanuck.)
No offense taken. If I didn’t have family ties through my wife, I wouldn’t be here either.
Personally, I have no desire to live outside of Texas. I like the suburbs, particularly south Fort Worth and Round Rock (just north of Austin).
Don’t forget about legal pot.
Ha ha, I dunno. If your friend was American I would take that statement with a bit of salt. I remember these American dudes talking about how easy Thai / Laotian etc women where and how the whole ‘me love you long time’ was actually true. Upon going there it turns out the women they were talking about were the low class village transplants who hung out in shitty areas like Sukhumvit and Khao San. If you go to the better areas of BKK and Chiang Mai for the most part the local women wouldn’t be caught dead with foreigners.
Not to be a downer but if this is the plan Singapore is like a shot in the dark. It’s a competitive country. You would be better of trying this in the Middle-East.
Calgary is like a Denver with oil wealth. And no Peyton.
^ So Bo Levi Mitchell =/= Peyton Manning?
^ Not quite. Though come to think of it, its another similarity, Broncos, Stampeders. Same animal on the helmet.
Don’t forget Seattle then. Our snowpocalypse is 6 inches deep. Granted the city does shut down, but it also only happens every 3-4 years. The rain isn’t that bad, and the gorgeous summers more than make up for it.
I don’t know about the women… I’d say tats and piercings on one end of the spectrum, and outdoor khakis and parkas on the other. Depends where you are. Given the large tech presence I’d say there’s probably a greater men:women ratio at certain age groups, but don’t quote me on that. Lots of Asians (=good food), though not as many as BC. I think there’s a decent Russian population too.
Re: finance, as some have pointed out to me there are fewer opportunities in finance here, it may mean it’s less cutthroat (who would relocate to Seattle for finance job) or more (less job supply). I’m fresh, but my underemployment lasted 6 months, and I was only half job hunting. Certainly not as glamorous as Singapore, but Seattle is great city, it’s beautiful, and you get to play outside all year long (job permitting, so no, but your friends and neighbors can). And no state income tax.
East of Sacramento, CA, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada: Auburn, Placerville, Grass Valley, Cool, and so on.
Lots more horses, lots fewer people.
I like Seattle and east of Sacramento. But for finance?
Believe it or not, people work in finance in places other than NYC and Toronto, too.
This.
The irony here is that cutthroat financial cities are hard to get jobs in because… they are cutthroat… while non-cutthroat cities are hard to get jobs in because they have so few jobs to begin with and low turnover.
Don’t move to Seattle. Two things:
There are virtually no real front office jobs there.
Seattle is underpeforming in the women department relative to other tier 2 financial cities in the US such as LA, Chicago, Boston, etc. (i.e., any non-NY or SF city).
If you want women and finance jobs with a more laid back experience, go South young man. It does not get better than Dallas.
I’m going to agree here. I’d say chicks in Dallas are hotter and more likely to be landable than in Houston (which is just a bunch of hot UT/A&M chicks who got married young). Austin can be fun, but the traffic is terrible and there aren’t a lot of finance jobs there.
Telecommuting.
Nashville
When you guys find the high paying private equity or hedge fund job that hires people with no directly relevant experience and allows you to work from a variety of scenic world locations, let me know as well.
Sure. If that was an option, then that would open up a lot of locations. Warm and low tax. That’s all you need.
I’ve been hearing Nashville pop up a lot lately. I have several PE clients who are making investments in the greater Nashville area.
Dublin fool.
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