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describe wilmington, de on 160k+

genuinely relevant to my interests
Frozen legend
  05/21/15
Do you have student loans?
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
only like 30k left, also 10k on a car loan. why?
Frozen legend
  05/21/15
It impacts your budget. You can rent a two bedroom luxu...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
180 do you have any sense of what life is like as midleve...
Frozen legend
  05/21/15
Ranges from New York hours and New York style work, but with...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
"You can rent a two bedroom luxury condo or a townhouse...
wonderful well-lubricated old irish cottage chad
  05/21/15
A luxury condo is $1500-2000 a month. I am not sure that th...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
yeah, i guess i agree on that one. however, $500/mo for 5...
wonderful well-lubricated old irish cottage chad
  05/21/15
It sure beats $3000 for a shithole in NYC with New York taxe...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
lol at buying an estate as a 4th year at a firm in delaware....
Adventurous insane preventive strike
  05/21/15
Mid level could buy for $580k for a 5 bed, 7 bath, 5500 squa...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
LOL at buying furniture and paying upkeep and utility bills ...
Aphrodisiac Chartreuse Wrinkle Institution
  05/22/15
(DLA Piper associate)
smoky liquid oxygen puppy
  05/21/15
ENJOYING his work and life far more than people in high COL ...
Impressive vivacious whorehouse macaca
  05/21/15
(DLA Partner)
smoky liquid oxygen puppy
  05/21/15
And the DLA office is actually pretty good, they have a dece...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
also mike castle!
Passionate hall faggotry
  05/21/15
Oh; how could I forget everyone's favorite RINO.
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
wilmington is very nice
Mind-boggling Location Police Squad
  05/21/15
The highlands, the area out 52 and 100 into Greenville and C...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
wilmington as a city is horrific. it's a ghetto shithole. ...
stimulating stead
  05/21/15
Yes. However, there are very well-defined areas that are b...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
crime in wilmington is really, really, REALLY bad, and it do...
stimulating stead
  05/21/15
That area is pretty bad. No lawyer would ever go there. No...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
i stopped in wilmington to take a piss at a gas station on t...
wonderful well-lubricated old irish cottage chad
  05/21/15
MNAT v. RLF?
Passionate hall faggotry
  05/21/15
Flip a coin as both are run like New York firms. Big summer...
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
I've been told RLF for chancery and corp, but close MNAT fo...
Frozen legend
  05/21/15
Fair
Wine University Milk
  05/21/15
kids?
Excitant jade new version
  05/21/15
Are you a single bro? If so you'll have to live in Philly an...
trip demanding stage mediation
  05/21/15
Enjoy dates at Tria!
Sapphire thriller heaven hunting ground
  05/21/15
GHETTO AS FUCK the BAYARD LAW sign gets me every time in ...
Vermilion Swashbuckling Sanctuary Persian
  05/21/15


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Date: May 21st, 2015 8:56 PM
Author: Frozen legend

genuinely relevant to my interests

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939421)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 8:57 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

Do you have student loans?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939431)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 8:58 PM
Author: Frozen legend

only like 30k left, also 10k on a car loan. why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939435)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:05 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

It impacts your budget.

You can rent a two bedroom luxury condo or a townhouse in trolley square, lease an entry level luxury car, dine at one of the three fine restaurants in town once a week, maybe joins middling country club all as a first year.

If you live more frugally initially and save for a down payment, as a third year, you can buy a lovely five bedroom house in the highlands.

http://m.realtor.com/#details?property_id=6481984487&rdc_return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realtor.com%2Frealestateandhomes-detail%2F2301-Willard-St_Wilmington_DE_19806_M64819-84487

If you end up with another lawyer or other highly paid professional, as senior associates, you could afford an estate.

http://m.realtor.com/#details?property_id=6028772542&rdc_return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realtor.com%2Frealestateandhomes-detail%2F40-Selborne-Dr_Wilmington_DE_19807_M60287-72542



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939494)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:11 PM
Author: Frozen legend

180

do you have any sense of what life is like as midlevel at one of the big DE firms (sounds like you might be one)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939542)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:18 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

Ranges from New York hours and New York style work, but with a more polite attitude, to more relaxed old school delaware counsel work.

What type of work also matters. Restructuring is quite slow now but can be crazy, chancery work is booming as always and has a propensity to be insane levels of work in spurts, IP has slowed, there is not much transactional work around, some firms do general lit which tends to be more chill.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939627)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:17 PM
Author: wonderful well-lubricated old irish cottage chad

"You can rent a two bedroom luxury condo or a townhouse in trolley square, lease an entry level luxury car, dine at one of the three fine restaurants in town once a week, maybe joins middling country club"

brother, NOBODY in biglaw should be doing this shit. none of this shit. live like a pauper, rack up as much money you can, invest dat shit, and move on with your life at a lower-paying job after a few years.

i can't imagine blowing money on models and bottles as an associate and having nothing to show for it when i'm pushed out at year 6.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939617)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:19 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

A luxury condo is $1500-2000 a month. I am not sure that the extra $500 over a normal place is make it or break it.

Even doing all those things, you are still saving a good bit of money.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939647)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:34 PM
Author: wonderful well-lubricated old irish cottage chad

yeah, i guess i agree on that one.

however, $500/mo for 5 years, assuming a 7% return, will be a bit over $200k in 30 years. food for thought, BRoTHER.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939820)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

It sure beats $3000 for a shithole in NYC with New York taxes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939853)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:20 PM
Author: Adventurous insane preventive strike

lol at buying an estate as a 4th year at a firm in delaware. recipe for disaster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939660)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:22 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

Mid level could buy for $580k for a 5 bed, 7 bath, 5500 square foot house in a very nice neighborhood.

You would need to be DINKS to buy an estate, but 10 acres and Norman estate for $1.5m as opposed to a one bedroom in MFH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939687)



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Date: May 22nd, 2015 11:22 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac Chartreuse Wrinkle Institution

LOL at buying furniture and paying upkeep and utility bills for a 5500 square foot house unless you have like 6 kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27942556)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:18 PM
Author: smoky liquid oxygen puppy

(DLA Piper associate)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939622)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:19 PM
Author: Impressive vivacious whorehouse macaca

ENJOYING his work and life far more than people in high COL cities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939637)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:20 PM
Author: smoky liquid oxygen puppy

(DLA Partner)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939651)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:21 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

And the DLA office is actually pretty good, they have a decent home grown chancery litigator, picked up another great one from a V10 and a top notch restructuring guy who came from a different V10.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939667)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:31 PM
Author: Passionate hall faggotry

also mike castle!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939783)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:35 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

Oh; how could I forget everyone's favorite RINO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939841)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:21 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Location Police Squad

wilmington is very nice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939671)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:39 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

The highlands, the area out 52 and 100 into Greenville and Centerville, and the area near hoopes are some of the nicest areas in the country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939872)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:23 PM
Author: stimulating stead

wilmington as a city is horrific. it's a ghetto shithole. have fun getting robbed and shot just a few blocks from the office building district.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939701)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:26 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

Yes. However, there are very well-defined areas that are bad (terrible, maybe worse than Camden), and then a few blocks away it is the downtown, and then a mile away there are nice areas with no crime.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939729)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:29 PM
Author: stimulating stead

crime in wilmington is really, really, REALLY bad, and it doesn't always stay confined to its confines. this story was from TODAY:

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2015/05/20/woman-shot-wilmington/27661293/



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939767)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:35 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

That area is pretty bad. No lawyer would ever go there. No lawyer goes anywhere other than the riverfront, market, king and french between the train station and 14th or so, and out delaware ave and a couple blocks north and south.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939834)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:35 PM
Author: wonderful well-lubricated old irish cottage chad

i stopped in wilmington to take a piss at a gas station on the way to philly in the 90s. i will never go there again. there was a crowd of jigs hooting and hollering in the parking lot. felt like i was back home.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939840)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:38 PM
Author: Passionate hall faggotry

MNAT v. RLF?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939861)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:40 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

Flip a coin as both are run like New York firms. Big summer classes, forced attrition, hard (but not New York hard) to make partner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27939895)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 9:58 PM
Author: Frozen legend

I've been told RLF for chancery and corp, but close

MNAT for bankruptcy, but close (and other firms also good)

MNAT for IP and not close at all

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27940113)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 10:13 PM
Author: Wine University Milk

Fair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27940246)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 10:00 PM
Author: Excitant jade new version

kids?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27940141)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 10:05 PM
Author: trip demanding stage mediation

Are you a single bro? If so you'll have to live in Philly and commute or else live a very boring existence. The burbs are very nice and easy ride to the beach though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27940180)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 10:21 PM
Author: Sapphire thriller heaven hunting ground

Enjoy dates at Tria!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27940305)



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Date: May 21st, 2015 10:47 PM
Author: Vermilion Swashbuckling Sanctuary Persian

GHETTO AS FUCK

the BAYARD LAW sign gets me every time in the train station.

u going to richards layton finger?

Potter Anderson?

Morris Nichols?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2886234&forum_id=2#27940491)