Topic: Anyone have dreams of living in New York City?
Victor Von Mediaboy
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posted 06 November 2001 10:49 AM
Now's the time to move there. Rents in lower Manhattan are really really cheap right now. Apartments that usually cost US$2500-4000 a month are going for a song. Of course, you have to put up with the noise, the dust, the debris, and the smell. For some, I could see that being a small price to pay for living in the city that never sleeps.
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'lance
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posted 06 November 2001 01:34 PM
I'd love to live in New York at some point. It's funny. In a sense I've never really believed in the place, it's so encrusted in mythology and romance.
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Doug
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posted 06 November 2001 02:08 PM
Yeah, but good luck finding a job there now. Anyway, rents will just bounce back up to their horrendous levels in a few years anyway. May as well stay where you are and at least be gouged more gradually.
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'lance
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posted 06 November 2001 03:20 PM
I'm sure you're right. Still, hook twice the glory, hook twice the fear. (Can anyone name me that CanLit reference?)
Similarly, I'd like to live in San Fransisco, which I've actually visited. Cost of living is of course horrendous, and chances of finding work in my field probably dicey. Still...
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Trespasser
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posted 06 November 2001 04:27 PM
I spent just 2 weeks in NYC a couple of years ago and didn't feel foreign at all. Rents in 1999/2000 in up-up-up-town Manhattan weren't that bad as the myth has it(not to mention Brooklyn, where another friend lived).
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David Kyle
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posted 06 November 2001 06:04 PM
I'm not sure about New York, but I would move to Hong Kong in a New York minute. What a city! Oh, to be a minority again.
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quote:I'm sure you're right. Still, hook twice the glory, hook twice the fear. (Can anyone name me that CanLit reference?)
The Double Hook, right?
I'd happily live in NYC, not permanently maybe, but for a few years it'd be great. I've never been to SF, but the friends who have visited say it's very nice. Of course, all of their friends or family who they've gone there to visit invariably live in one of the suburbs, and hour outside the city core, 'cause it's so obscenely expensive.
posted 07 November 2001 12:03 PM
Personally, I like Vermont, New Hampshire and upstate New York. I find small town New England really groovy.
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