If New Yorker Caroline Colvin can make it here, she’ll make it anywhere — her full-time job in Baltimore, for example.
Unlike countless 9-to-5 kids who travel from small hometowns to big cities for big checks, this Gen Z gal is doing things backwards.
“I’m a reverse super-traveler,” Colvin, 23, a Midtown resident, told The Post.
“I live in New York City, which is an expensive city with a high cost of living,” she explained. “And I work in Baltimore, which is less expensive and has a lower cost of living.”
“I’m definitely paying more for bills and rent,” added Colvin, a social media manager for Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, where she commutes several times a week, she said. “And I’m getting paid a little less.”
It’s a cheeky twist on the super-commute trend — a move made popular by non-New Yorkers who don’t mind making massive trips to the office.
Kaitlin Jay, an Upper West Side hairdresser who lives in North Carolina, previously told The Post that making the two-week 600-mile trek from Charlotte to Manhattan by plane gives her “the best of both worlds.”
“I love what I do in New York and I love life in Charlotte,” said Jay, 30, who said she spends about $1,000 on round-trip airfare. “I’m coming forward.”
Grace Chang drives it from Arlington, Virginia, to her job in Hell’s Kitchen twice a week.
But the millennial financial analyst insists the hellish 500-mile commute, which costs about $1,000 each month, is worth the effort.
“I’ve always dreamed of working in New York,” Chang, 28, told The Post. “But there are definitely some weeks when I’m, like, ‘Why am I doing this?’
Colvin, who told The Post she spends about $500 a month to commute between the Big Apple and Charm City on Amtrak — a six-hour round trip covering nearly 400 miles — is doing it for love.
“My fiance, Kale, works in finance and had an opportunity in New York,” said the beauty, who doubles as a theater actress. She made her NYC debut in June, starring in a production of Amity at the New York Theater Festival.
“I perform and he’s in finance,” Colvin said. She and Kale moved from Maryland to Manhattan in January. “Moving here just made sense for both of our professional pursuits.”
To save money, she stays with her parents in Maryland while she’s in town, she said.
And while going back and forth for less pay might not make sense to most, Colvin says he wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I love mine [social media management] work and I love being in the city,” Colvin said. “And the job market is tough right now.”
“I’m probably not making as much money as I would if I was working and living in the same place,” she admitted.
“But having a job I love is definitely something I’m grateful for in 2024.”
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