There Are Two Ways to Move Upstate

  |  October 28, 2013
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One is to do so well in the city that you no longer need to live there — your business or your art or your jingle-writing career has taken off to the point where you’re in such demand that you don’t have to show up at the local shmooze-fest and charm people into hiring you (this is not auto-biographical at all, we swear).

The other is to be willing to live with, and work for, less — to choose from the limited palate of job opportunities and value the fresh air, the affordable real estate, the community, the access to nature and culture and the chance to see actual stars in the sky, more than you value a city-sized paycheck. We know lots of folks who have chosen this path, and they seem pretty darned happy. (They also seem to have picked up a lot of actual handy skills, which few city folk have).

Okay, fine, we’re leaving out lots of other ways, the most obvious being telecommuting, and the slightly less obvious being opening your own upstate business — seeing what’s needed and filling that hole with your own entrepreneurial prowess. Are there other ways to drag our butts north that we haven’t thought of?

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