How Many Of You Bitches Live in NYC

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I drive to work, and pay monthly parking in Midtown. $600.00 per month, including 18.xx% tax.

If you live in Manhattan, you are not required to pay that tax - so you'd pay about $510 per month. Ritzy neighborhoods like Chelsea, Soho or the Upper East Side will cost you more. Less desirable locations, like off West End Avenue in Clinton (previously known as Hell's Kitchen) will cost less.

Some Manhattan residents will garage their car, which they use only rarely -- like for weekend getaways out of town -- in New Jersey. They then take the ferry across the river, and drive where they want to go, and enjoy much less expensive parking.

In my outer borough location I have heated indoor parking attached to my building. I pay $175 a month for it. (I pay $1850 per month for the two bedroom, 1.5 bath, 1400 sq ft apt we live in.)
 


ontheconcord said:
Or you could just get an apartment in Forest Hills, Queens and have a pretty good living ground. Plus the train station is like a block away.
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If you are moving to NYC to be in NYC ... fucking move to NYC (Manhattan) ... have fun taking a cab back to Queens/Forest Hills at 4am when the bars close.
 
Jon lives in Brooklyn which isn't exactly NYC as most people think of it.

I live in the NYC area (about an hour outside of Manhattan) which I think is the best of both worlds. I live in a quiet woodsy area but can be into the hustle and bustle in an hour. Check out the Rockland COunty/Orange County areas.
 
I lived in Queens for most of my life. I now live in Pennsylvania. I don't plan on moving back to NYC anytime soon. Everything in New York city is over priced. Why in the world would anyone pay $3k-$4k per month for a fucking room? I think it's retarded.

If you're going to move to the city, don't live in Manhattan...you'll just be wasting your money. Move to a nice quiet neighborhood in Queens or Brooklyn and you'll save $$ and still be only a few minutes from Manhattan by train or car.

Since moving, I love the fact that I don't have to listen to sirens single day, multiple times a day. I don't have to rent an apartment for an arm and leg (I just bought a nice bi-level house in a quiet neighborhood and my mortgage is $1,300 per month.

I also don't have to worry about fucking finding a parking spot anymore. That is one thing that I really hated..driving around for 45 mins just to find a place to park my car. And then they have all these fucking retarded parking rules..oh, you can't park here from 1-2pm, no standing behind this pole. Plus, those parking fines are ridiculous! I once got my car towed because I exceeded the time on a parking meter!

Good Luck Bro!
 
ontheconcord said:
For 3-4k, you'll be living in some pretty shitty neighborhoods with apartments that houses the cities "finest" escorts. That is unless you move into dumbo Brooklyn, which is right across the bridge from Manhattan.
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Bullshit.

I just took a look at some apartments the other week, $3,000 - 4,000 gives you really nice 2BRs, serviced apartments with some nice amenities like gym, doorman, concierge, lounge etc.

Good choice btw. Paul, there's nothing quite like NYC, don't listen to the haters.
 
RoyalRadande said:
And then they have all these fucking retarded parking rules..oh, you can't park here from 1-2pm, no standing behind this pole. Plus, those parking fines are ridiculous! I once got my car towed because I exceeded the time on a parking meter!
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Dude from age 14 - 23, I had to get up at 5am 6 days a week and move my Dad's car from one side of the street to the other so the street sweepers, garbage trucks, or snow plows could get through.

I don't know how the fuck I did that for so many years!!
 
You going to be movin' there for part of the year Konrad? That is when you're not out in the random European mountains with the Yeti.

Also I plan on not having a car. Cab or driver.

gopher said:
Bullshit.

I just took a look at some apartments the other week, $3,000 - 4,000 gives you really nice 2BRs, serviced apartments with some nice amenities like gym, doorman, concierge, lounge etc.

Good choice btw. Paul, there's nothing quite like NYC, don't listen to the haters.
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I wouldn't move to NYC just yet. Wait for the bottom to fall out in RE prices. With Bloomberg running the city into the ground, and the massive drop in services that's just been announced, it shouldn't take long.
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
Also I plan on not having a car. Cab or driver.
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You really don't need one if you live in the city. Cabs do get expesive though. Count on at least $20 for every trip on average. Trains are way more affordable.

One things for sure, if you do move there, it will be unlike anything you've ever experienced before. Over time, you will come to love and hate it simultaneously. Not trying to disuade you from going, but it is hard to live there. Even for people with money. I think every young person should try it. Although, I don't think I could ever move back, I still consider it home.
 
gopher said:
Bullshit.

I just took a look at some apartments the other week, $3,000 - 4,000 gives you really nice 2BRs, serviced apartments with some nice amenities like gym, doorman, concierge, lounge etc.

Good choice btw. Paul, there's nothing quite like NYC, don't listen to the haters.
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What do you mean haters? I live in NY you herb
 
SUP3RNOVA said:
You going to be movin' there for part of the year Konrad? That is when you're not out in the random European mountains with the Yeti.

Also I plan on not having a car. Cab or driver.
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Haha, Andorra is off the table, found a better solutions where I actually get to live in civilization ;). But yeah, moving in April or so, once my papers go through.

ontheconcord said:
What do you mean haters? I live in NY you herb
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The haters wasn't directed at you.
 
I'm looking for somewhere to move after May sometime, NYC seems a little clusterfucked to me..
 
I was born in NYC, and live in a close-by suburb on LI. Manhattan, unfortunately, has come before the wrecking ball in too many areas, and is suffering from encroaching slickness in many areas that used to be full of old NY character. Chinatown, for example, had all the old tenements intact (befitting the Lower East Side), but they're slowly being demolished in favor of Starbucks and bank chains. Which truly SUCKS!

I seek authenticity, and you can still find it in areas like Greenpoint and Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Boerum Hill is a Brooklyn neighborhood full of character. College Point, Queens has surprising small town feel and is close to the water. There are off-beat places you might like such as Breezy Point and Rockaway Park, Queens. Inwood, in upper Manhattan has prewar apartments that rent for far less than downtown.
 
Personal opinion ... Gotta live in Manhattan. It's an easy drunken stumble home at any time of the night and you do not have to convince a girl to shut her eyes while you ferry her across the bridge. I agree, living in Manhattan is overpriced, but if you are just moving here and have some cash you really should live here for a couple of years first. My sis just got a very nice, large one bedroom in a renovated section 8 for just over 3k - east 23rd. The area is not amazing and all that outgoing, but it is close enough. Plus... Jon lives in Bklyn... why would you want to occupy the same landmass as that dude!!?
 
south Florida is a lot cheaper and we have pretty damn good night life and tons of woman umm and a beach thats is always sunny 4k you would be living it up for 2,800 you can score a nice place downtown what i like to call a pantie dropper

it's not NYC but it's hella nice and no snow
 
Park slope - quiet, safe, cheap rent, close to Manhattan. Lot of subway goes there (N,R, F, G)
 
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