Ramit Sethi offers direct advice to college graduates: move where the action is—typically a big city—to access more jobs, social opportunities, and tacit knowledge that aids growth. He argues geographic proximity to networks and ideas is valuable and cautions that buying a house early can limit mobility and opportunities.
I'm just about to graduate from college. What advice do you have for me? And at that moment, the best piece of advice that I have is move where the action is. And typically, that's a big city. So that would be where there's more jobs, where there's simply more people if you're looking for relationships. And there's a lot of tacit knowledge that happens in big cities, like, oh, have you tried this? Have you tried this thing? This idea that's going around so often. Surrounding yourself geographically can be hugely rewarding to you as you grow. You can't do that if you bought a house because everybody told you that it was going to be the best investment.
