3 Where to Live

Where is the very best place to live to pursue your career? As with so many things in our world, the answer is simply this: no one knows. If a particular city boasted a higher ratio of successful actors, we’d all move there. And as soon as we did, the ratio would shift.

Actors need to go where the work is. Los Angeles and New York remain major hubs for our industry, but there’s lots going on in Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Boston . . . the list goes on, and is far from static. For a time, Wilmington, NC was the new “in” spot. Then suddenly, it was all about New Mexico . . . then Atlanta, GA. Actor-friendly cities are ever-changing, along with state tax incentives, the real estate ...

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