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NYC is sick bc you're close to so much $$$. I'm from Columbus, Ohio, and there's not a lot of money there. Like, you could ball out on like $80,000 a year, and if you make like $100,000 a year, you're probably like really balling. And if you make anything more than that, you're like really, really rich in Ohio. And so, instead of staying there, I dropped out of college when I was 20 and I moved to Miami. And in Miami, $100,000 a year is not balling. And so, as I made my cost of living higher, and as I was surrounded by more people with more money, and as I was meeting new people that were doing similar things to me, I started to make a lot more money very quickly. And then in April, I was brought to New York City. And now here, I'm constantly surrounded by money, by people in my company, by new people that I meet out that are like tech founders, that are entrepreneurs, that are in investment banking, etc., etc. Like I genuinely could not live off of $100,000 a year. I spend more than that, and I pay 50% taxes. So it's like, you literally need to make $200k plus a year to live here comfortably the way that I live. So I think the reason that a lot of people do feel stuck and get stuck is because they're not moving. You have to get closer to money, you have to leave your hometown. I think you, if you don't do this in your early 20s, you're not going to do it later. So I just think it's really important to be in proximity to money, especially in your early 20s, to capitalize the most opportunity possible.