Covid aside, is there anybody who’s main office is out of NY, but they live in the Philly area? What’s the commute like (not just length, but does it feel taxing)? Better exit opps are out of NYC, but I’d prefer to live in PA rather than Long Island or something. Open to any and all thoughts on this!

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Is NJ an option?

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Lol NJ jokes are a thing, but there are some pretty decent neighborhoods in north jersey where a lot of our NY partners live

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Bucks County, Pa outside Philly - lots of people commute to NYC area from here

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"COVID aside" LOL
love your optimism!

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Lol I meant more “pre-COVID” times. Thanks for the laugh!

If you can rely on Amtrak Keystones or NJ Transit expresses from Trenton, Hamilton or Princeton Junction, it’s doable but can be long. I would not recommend driving it at all. I did it for a year living in Yardley PA but later got a job closer to home. Slept on the trains each way, but it could get annoying when there were delays.

In consulting, there is some risk this could get really annoying if you have clients outside Manhattan though, and might force some longer commutes and being based in NYC, you might not be able to expense a hotel. You might just want to put transferring to your employer’s Philly office on the table if that is the case.

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Thanks for the helpful info. This would definitely be more on the track of exiting to industry, rather than staying in consulting. Very helpful, thank you!

Additional context: married with a family of 4 so nice suburbs is where I’d want to stay/be.

I did this for 9 months. I worked long hours. It was draining and I didn’t have any family responsibilities to get home to.

If you can work 9-5, it wouldn’t be so bad depending on how far you are from the train station and how far your office is from Penn station. These two overlooked distances add up - you don’t want to be adding an extra 15 min riding a subway when your commute is already 2hrs 15min. Especially if the subway is always unpredictably late and you either have to leave work earlier to catch your train factoring in late subway or you end up waiting at Penn because you missed your train.

Morning commute was easier as the trains were less likely to be delayed. The evenings were hellish for me because trains were always delayed by then and outside of rush hour there are fewer of them.

I know people who have done this for family reasons. The ultimate goal was to have him leave his NYC role for something nearby, and he was supposed to be commuting in only a few days a week.

You mentioned above that NJ was off the table but there are some super nice spots that would give you a better lifestyle (“Covid aside” haha) for working out of the NY office.

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