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Robin's avatar

A friend of mine moved to Charlotte from Illinois and loves it. She was also a pretty conservative person in a sea of liberals ๐Ÿ˜†.

Several years ago I looked at moving back to my red home state. I could not find a job that came close to paying me what I made then. I would've had to take about a 20% pay cut, even factoring in the admittedly lower cost of living. And I would've had to start driving to work every day. It was really eye opening. And so 10 years later I am still in Illinois.

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I moved out of IL some years ago although I was educated in Chicago suburbs and worked a good part of my adult life the city, I took for granted great restaurants, parks along the lake and incredible museums. I don't regret moving to Southern CA though, because Chicago's one evil is miserably cold winters and driving on ice and snow.

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