Is this enough to make it in New York? (apartment, to rent)

[san phlegmatico]

I am considering relocation to Manhattan (from California). I have been offered a tantalizing job opportunity and I need to remit an answer soon.

From everything I have heard and read -- on this forum, for instance -- New York is super-duper-uber expensive. I hear Wonder Bread is going at a C-note per loaf! Rumor has it pedestrian commuters will now be obligated to pay a Walking Toll on every street corner in the city: 25 cents per stride! I hope it's not true that landlords are requiring 48 months (unrefundable) rent in advance in order to secure an apartment.

My wages will be roughly $1,000,000/ year, conservatively of course. Is this enough to survive in New York? I'm hoping it will be. I understand that learning to live on a budget is imperative in New York.

Lastly, is it true that a new local city ordinance forbids the use of insecticides, Roach Motels, glue sticks, and the like to kill/ entrap verminous insects and rodents? I have heard that the fee for harming said creatures is $99/ per creature. And I have heard that an alternative penance is to orally consume the dead vermin in the presence of thousands of onlookers in Times Square, and then to be dunked in that water tank Criss Angel almost died in.

Tough city.

Seriously, Is my $1,000,000 annual income going to be sufficient to withstand the high cost of living and extreme demands of the Apple? Is having a separate bedroom area in my apartment asking too much? Will I be lucky enough to have a kitchenette separate from my bathroom, or must the two primary functions (cooking and crapping) of these rooms coexist? Is there any way I would be lucky enough to rent an apartment whereby catching a contact high from the crack cocaine smoke wafting upwards from the streets below isn't a daily occurence?

Thanks in advance.

[Shadb]

I don't know man. 1 million a year isn't that much New York standards. Everyone is at least making 2 million annually in all 5 boroughs. But look, you may find a nice unit in a housing project in perhaps East New York or the Brownsville section where I'm from. You'll still be strapped for cash though.

Good Luck.

[Goldie214]

I'm not sure, I think you have to pay 10,000 a year on top of your rent to be licensed "an official New Yorker." Until then you are not entitled to all the city has to offer, (including those costly lessons on how to have a superior attitude, especially regarding people from New Jersey or any Midwestern state). Only until you have paid your fee, passed the annual tests, and received your license, can you even be considered by any of the co-op boards in any (decent) neighborhood in Manhattan. I think it's the same to live in the boroughs, but the test is instead geared toward hating yuppies.

[Goldie214]

Those smells of crack cocaine actually cost extra. There's a city tax enacted to ensure that no one in NYC gets a free contact high.

[Elvira Black]

Smoking anything...especially cigarettes...is punishable by death.

[BXGEAR]

You're a comedian
A million/ year? you're set to move OUT of New York

[complexsimplicity]

My wages will be roughly $1,000,000/ year, conservatively of course. Is this enough to survive in New York? I'm hoping it will be. I understand that learning to live on a budget is imperative in New York.

Will I be lucky enough to have a kitchenette separate from my bathroom, or must the two primary functions (cooking and crapping) of these rooms coexist? Is there any way I would be lucky enough to rent an apartment whereby catching a contact high from the crack cocaine smoke wafting upwards from the streets below isn't a daily occurence?

don't know man. 1 million a year isn't that much New York standards. Everyone is at least making 2 million annually in all 5 boroughs. But look, you may find a nice unit in a housing project in perhaps East New York or the Brownsville section where I'm from. You'll still be strapped for cash though.

Good Luck.

You also forgot to mention the beautiful neighborhoods Bed-Stuy, Harlem, and South Jamaica

Either the annual inome of $1,000,000 was a typo, or the poster is taking a cheap jab at NYC. Because if he read the other post like he said he did, he would have saw post on how to survice on 50k a year. Anyone who makes $1,000,000 knows they can practically live anywhere they choose. That is unless they plan on paying $85,000 a month to rent a studio in Manhattan.

[Elvira Black]

Are you kidding? 85K a month to rent a studio in Manhattan is dirt cheap!!!

[complexsimplicity]

Are you kidding? 85K a month to rent a studio in Manhattan is dirt cheap!!!

Your right, I didn't want to scare the original poster too much.

[UpstaterInBklyn]

I hope you mean $1,000,000 take-home. Beause after federal tax, state tax, city tax, borough tax, sidewalk tax, air tax, gas tax (even for those without cars) commuter tax, transit tax, and bad-habit tax, your annual take home pay on $1,000,000 ends up at exactly $109.12.