My ultimate goal is to own a house on a couple acres and commute roughly an hour to work in a big city such as Chicago or NY. I'm actually enrolling to complete my MBA focusing in Marketing and currently an outside sales rep for a major building material supplier.


I'm thinking living somewhere like Sloatsburg, NY or Wadsworth, IL. Something along those lines where some nice property can be bought for relatively reasonable money.


Personally, I'd love downtown in a high-rise but my wife would never go for that lol


Anyone have any experience doing something like this? We live pretty comfortably on $45k a year here in TN, wife is able to stay at home with the baby. I'm thinking for sure I'd have to be looking at a salary at least 1.5 times my current. Hopefully when I get that MBA and a couple more years experience/training at my current job I can get into something fitting, maybe even within the same company.


Feel free to share your experiences

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