wait.. NYC living.
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- qruise
"70k is a reasonable offer in NYC. And you can certainly live comfortably (not luxuriously but you wont go mad with poverty)."
ok ive never understood this. there are like 10 million people living in NYC. i think it's pretty obvious that 10 million people arent all maknig 70k a friggin year, and not everyone is homeless.
why does everyone who wants to move into NYC only hear how expensive it is to live there, yet there are millions of people with all sorts of jobs (pizza store owners... parking lot attendants) who all seem to be living in the city just fine.
- -sputnik-0
they live in crappy, rat-infested closets?
jk. i've asked myself that same question.
- ********0
they probably dont have to pay rent since they have lived there for generations?
new york has only recently (last 40 decades) become popular - so the prices are higher (apparently before it was a mad shithole!) (ie the milton glaser logo was made to raise affection for NY)
designers dont live in ghettos
- OSFA0
I do, cuz I'm a thug!
- ********0
do consider a 800-1000sq ft apt. just fine?
- chossy0
doesn't everyone in America live in massive converted lofts no matter what they do for work and have loads of sculptures and welding things hanging about?. also when you turn the light off the room goes blue.
- gramme0
it's because orcs are near
- material-10
a lot of those people live with extended family who all work several jobs.
- qruise0
so ur saying the majority of people living in the city have just been there for decades, and livnig more large-family-style...rather than on their own?
- ********0
Didn't think it existed 40 decades ago? ;)
- woodyBatts0
because most people who talk about living in nyc frankly don't know enough about it or/and don't live here.
Like knowing about rent stabilization and control.
I used to be intimidated by the cost of living in nyc vs. where i lived in baltimore. But when you take out car expenses, it evens out.
The thing that sucks is that property to buy is so high up here that it is a challenge to buy property.
- -sputnik-0
i remember visiting a friend of mine who lived in soho. she and her bf both worked and were very well paid and had a decent place for the area, but it was TINY. 2 bedrooms and baths but each room was miniscule, galley kitchen, elevator which could barely fit 2 ppl in it.
ugh.
- e-pill0
i have a rent stablized apt. i have really found living in a rent stablized aapt the best thing for the saving of my earnings and not spend it on rent.
finding these apts are very hard, but rent increases can be at most 5%, but is usually like 1-2%...
also when you hear about super expensive apts its usually from kids who dont know better or only want to live in manhattan only where the rent is the highest.
nyc is 5 separate boroughs...each with very different rent prices, only manhattan being the most ridiculous in terms of size to price paid.
also as you have asked and staated that the millions of other new yorkers who dont earn a great salary are living here no problem...
you must take for instaances that people live together and thus live with dual or more incomes.
it isnt like nyc is so differnet than anywhere else to live...
its just filled with more of everything...more headaches more people more grime more money to be made...
come on by!!!
try it out!!or dont...
- OSFA0
e-pill, that sounds like a typical cab driver story....
SOHO please....
- ********0
In London there are council houses/flats which are run by local government and are given to people on extreme low income, who can prove they have been living in the area for a period and are registered there, and/or large families on child benefits.
There are also housing association houses bought by a housing association which award low-rent houses within the heart of the city, but have a ten year waiting list and usually you need to know somoene already in the building to get a flat there.
Council blocks and housing association houses routinely get sold to private contractors, forcing low-income families out of the city. It's a careful balance the various burroughs of the city struggle to maintain.
If you dont qualify within any of the above demographics, i.e. you're a young professional looking for a place in the city, you're shit out of luck.
do some research to figure out your cities housing policy.
- ********0
or post indignant threads on NT, woteva, im eezee
- ********0
its not even that expensive here. rent costs ba fair bit, but the rest evens it out. i still have about the same cash left over each month as I did in london.
and you can get a packet of crisps and a bottle of water delivered to your door from the shop round the corner. which is awsome.
- -sputnik-0
sounds like rent control really is the way to go
- acescence0
the parking lot attendant isn't kicking off to his chelsea loft, he's getting on the train and commuting 45 minutes to yonkers
- ********0
fuck getting the tube in NY though - rush hour looks like hell
i cant even stand the london tube, doing it in NY would be enough to topmyself
- ********0
the "underground economy"