SF ---> NYC
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Hey boom... I have lived in a few different areas—West Village, LES, Williamsburg. West Village is just too expensive. LES is not much cheaper and quite frankly has lost all its character and cool night spots it retained even 5 years ago. Williamsburg is still pretty nice, especially if you like good restaurants. It and neighboring Greenpoint are the epicenter of the food and bar renaissance in the city, plus this is where the pretty females are. The downside IS some of the younger hipster douchebaggery and lousy housing infrastructure in Greenpoint (all Polish built clapboard rowhouses or newer developer condo craptastic cardboard architecture junk). But it's definitely and interesting neighborhood.
Long Island city has a pretty waterfront with a view of the UN but is mostly a big yawn...
One cool neighborhood that I have not heard mentioned is Carroll Gardens, adjacent to Park Slope. There are some pretty cool night spots around here, a neighborhood with an intimate residential feel, and great access to Manhattan via the F train.
DUMBO-don't do it. I have my studio here. The food is mostly lousy and it still feels like a ghost town at night (i.e. commuter city). Plus the residential rents are ridiculously overpriced. It's a great place for commercial space, however (home of many digital studios).
Whoever said Hoboken doesn't understand why New York is appealing to live in.
- "newer developer condo craptastic cardboard architecture junk" AHAHAHAe-pill