LA vs. NYC?
- Started
- Last post
- 26 Responses
- dragonfruit0
LA for sure. 'course, there are earthquakes and fukushima radiation here, but I would pick that over freezing snowy weather, get more space, more work, good healthcare, skip public tansport, and like a million other things.
- omahadesigns0
How do you raise a family in NYC? If a multi-room apartment / townhouse costs 2+ million, you don't use a car.
How do kids go to school? How do you go do things as a family?
- rentbrandelec
- you move to a 'burb upstate, CT or NJmonospaced
- the best education in the world is being in NYC for kids. best of all, most of it's free.robotron3k
- Best indoctrination. NY not that smart. they bend over nicely to authority.yurimon
- At least write a complete sentence you fuckwit.monospaced
- robotron3k0
the difference, in LA bars/restaurants close at 2am, in NYC they really never close.
- East / West Village?omahadesigns
- bars close at 4am in NY, but if you know where to go, there are many that stay open.robotron3k
- You can't buy alcohol between 4 am and noon (or maybe it's 8am), I thought?omahadesigns
- you can buy beer at most Bodegas anytimemoogchild
- monospaced0
I grew up and went to college in Southern California, started my career and lived in San Francisco, and have spent the last few years in New York City.
When it comes to pure quality of life as a default, I'd say LA is still the winner for the obvious reasons (weather, produce, prices). But, but... there's no reason you can't have a great quality of life in NYC, you just need more money. Luckily, wages here are usually adjusted to provide a similar standard to LA, and despite many misconceptions, NYC is incredibly clean and safe and convenient.
If life quality is about having everything at your fingertips at all hours, attending music and theatre, and being in a place with limitless opportunities, then NYC is great. But if you prefer the weather patterns in coastal CA, are willing to put up with driving all the time, and don't mind the occasional violent neighborhood, then LA is great.
It's still not fair to compare the two. Manhattan is really unique, and my recent trip to SF confirms this. Yes, SF is building up (vertically) and has neighborhoods, it is very much small-town feeling still, and has a few decades to go before it even resembles NYC. LA is so spread out that to this day when someone says they're from there, I am forced to ask them to clarify. It's not a unified city, LA is a county with all kinds of shit in it, and many places you wouldn't ever go.
- NY quality of life is great if you live on 5th ave or central park west and only stay in ny for a bit.yurimon
- great post monomoldero
- yurimon, always with a comment that reveals your complete lack of knowledgemonospaced
- moldero0
for better for quality of life?
LA would be my guess, NYC is like SF, expensive as fuck.
NYC and SF are great for experience/portfolios, not quality of life IMO.
but SF and NYC are much cooler and unique than LAa good quality of life is only working when you have/want to, move somewhere beautiful and cheap while freelancing for clients in those cities.
that's what I'm doing, I literally made 6 months of my rent the 1st 13 days of this year, this summer I'm not doing jack shit but surfing and drinking beer.- SF is a great place to live; culture, food, people, all of italbums
- Summer party at moldys.sea_sea
- @albums-it is a great city to live, but it is more than expensive as fuck. SF rent has now surpassed NYC.lvl_13
- my mortgage in SF was $3800/mo in the ghetto, my rent in Mazatlan is $600/mo by the beach. I'm never going back.moldero
- hektor9110
Been in NYC for 7 months and I have admit I'm really feeling good about the city. Although I'm more into nature I have come to love the NYC there are some negatives of course just like everywhere, but there are more positives for me at the moment. What I did noticed is that most of the people I've known so far fantasized with the idea of moving out, as for me I will definitely stay for 4-5 years.