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I lived in a "decent" 700sqft 1 bedroom in Elizabeth ($800/mo) with a brand new car ($400/month/lease) Plus - electric, gas, cable, internet, cell(no house phone), creditcard, Health ins, 401k, Car ins, food(inlcuding the odd chinees food or pizza delivery) and I still had a couple hundred left over every month. I think i was making around 30k at the time but my gf and I were home bodies. When we did go out, sometimes she would pay, sometimes I would.
If I didnt have the brand new car and full coverage insurance I would have had even more left over.
If you mean Exchange place right on the water in Jersey City, you probably need to be making at least 75-80k a year just to pay your rent and then you could proably manage to survive. Only like really big time white collar people live there making probably 200-500k per year min. If your talking young kids you always have the situation of like 10 people living in a two bed condo to give the impression that 20 somethings can live there. I used to know a coworker of mine who was so stuck up and snobby and she was always yapping on about how my townhome was on Park ave, ny and how the stores were like and what she used to shop for clothes. I finally found out from another coworker she was sharing the townhome with like 6 roomates. So in your case how many roomates are you planning to have?
I am guessing that with this sort of question about this area, there's a good chance that the OP will be have a lot of room mates, perhaps accompanied with sheets on the windows in lieu of curtains.
I lived in a "decent" 700sqft 1 bedroom in Elizabeth ($800/mo) with a brand new car ($400/month/lease) Plus - electric, gas, cable, internet, cell(no house phone), creditcard, Health ins, 401k, Car ins, food(inlcuding the odd chinees food or pizza delivery) and I still had a couple hundred left over every month. I think i was making around 30k at the time but my gf and I were home bodies. When we did go out, sometimes she would pay, sometimes I would.
If I didnt have the brand new car and full coverage insurance I would have had even more left over.
Did you live with your gf and did she split the rent? If she did well there goes your couple hundred a month.
Wages of containers haulers from NJ ports fell to 28,000 or lower and they keep on trucking. Scary. NJ hosts healthy illegal population, they somehow manage to survive even without speaking English. If you've bought whole wheat flat breads baked in NJ (and distributed nationally), you shall now that nobody but management & technical personnel speaks English at that bakery
This is happening across the USA. NJ is no exception........
how much should i earn minimun to survive in NJ. for a month.............
i m a MBA student from india and will i get that much in NJ.????
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