Would you take a $300K+ job with long hours in NYC or a $200K+ gig in Atlanta with a better title/role, great WLB, and a much stronger professional growth opportunity? Also, for ATL gig, I’ll eventually have to move to Charlotte in the next 2 years.

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Atlanta and it’s not even close (but I love golfing and am not about the NYC life)

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Have you lived in NYC ?

NYC but biased bc it’s my favorite city. If you don’t love NYC then ATL is the east choice here

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The main deciding factor for me here would be the better role/professional growth opportunity + WLB balance. I love NYC though. If the NYC role was the better one for my career, I would’ve picked that. I think 2 years is a good amount of time to spend in Atlanta and I’ve heard a lot of good things about Charlotte.

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ATL unless you’re someone that loves NYC

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Atl by a landslide

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What’s the role in each city?

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ATL no question, plus Charlotte rocks and is a super fun place to live. Very chill and not super high COL.

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Atlanta is boring af. Lived there and grew up in Georgia. Live in Denver now. I’d pick New York if you like the city

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OP already made a decision (wise one at that), give it a rest folks and stop being salty because OP didn’t pick the city you wanted OP to pick. Lol.

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Added some additional detail about an eventual relocation to CLT. Does that change your guys’ opinion at all?

No Clt is just a mini wanna be Atlanta.

Clt is actually better for raising a family imo. They’re very similar.

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ATL first and then move back to NYC

ATL is boring…

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