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You can live in Jersey City which is half the cost living of NYC with the vib of NYC ...
How could you even TRY to compare Jersey City with NYC? Does Jersey City have a title track named after it? Even Frank Sinatra, a Hoboken boy, didn't name his song after any towns in New Jersey. Please........
OP - enjoy your twenties in the city that never sleeps, has two baseball teams, two minor league teams, has trains that run 24/7, local beaches, the sights are too many to name and has a true cornucopia of people Welcome to New York!!!!
How could you even TRY to compare Jersey City with NYC? Does Jersey City have a title track named after it? Even Frank Sinatra, a Hoboken boy, didn't name his song after any towns in New Jersey. Please........
OP - enjoy your twenties in the city that never sleeps, has two baseball teams, two minor league teams, has trains that run 24/7, local beaches, the sights are too many to name and has a true cornucopia of people Welcome to New York!!!!
How you ever visited Historic Downtown or Journal SQ or Paulus Hook...enough said...
How could you even TRY to compare Jersey City with NYC? Does Jersey City have a title track named after it? Even Frank Sinatra, a Hoboken boy, didn't name his song after any towns in New Jersey. Please........
OP - enjoy your twenties in the city that never sleeps, has two baseball teams, two minor league teams, has trains that run 24/7, local beaches, the sights are too many to name and has a true cornucopia of people Welcome to New York!!!!
It's not a pissing contest between NJ or NYC. Nexis4Jersey was answering the OPs question of whether he could make it manhattan. a lot of posters advised the OP to try outer boroughs. Jersey City is actually more accessible to Manhattan than a lot of the outer boroughs, so it IS actually a better choice for someone on a budget that wants easy access to Manhattan.
Unless you seriously think that Jersey City and Inwood are so Divergent that the OP would be making a life altering mistake living in one and not the other?
By the way...two minor league teams, trains that run 24/7, local beaches etc etc etc. are avail to the OP regardless of whether he goes to sleep in Jersey City or the Bronx, in Queens or Staten Island. He is not goign to be able to afford to live RIGHT NEXT to all these things (these things aren't even next to each other) so he will be travelling from SOMEWHERE. Jersey is as good a place as any.
If the OP didn't have an amazing deal on an $800/mo share lined up in Greenwich Village then I think we could start talking Jersey City, Bay Ridge, Queens and all the other popular "budget minded" options. Even as somebody who is preparing to move to the other side of the Hudson, I won't pretend that if all else was equal I wouldn't be choosing Manhattan.
P.S. Anyone who hasn't visited downtown JC recently shouldn't be so quick to judge. There's a nice little scene growing up around the Grove St. PATH. Reminds me of Fort Greene in the late 90's/early 2000s.
Im in a similar type of boat, do people look down on u if ur not making $70k plus a year, especially women? It seems that most women out of college are looking for the finance guys to fund their sex and the city dream
Im in a similar type of boat, do people look down on u if ur not making $70k plus a year, especially women? It seems that most women out of college are looking for the finance guys to fund their sex and the city dream
haha okay 70k does not get you into the manhattan club
but there are plenty of women, there is very little incentive to "settle" for a guy - unless you need that kind of codependence... there is very little incentive for a girl to settle either until her biological clock starts going off and her married girlfriends in kansas are saying snarky things to her
haha okay 70k does not get you into the manhattan club
but there are plenty of women, there is very little incentive to "settle" for a guy - unless you need that kind of codependence... there is very little incentive for a girl to settle either until her biological clock starts going off and her married girlfriends in kansas are saying snarky things to her
Contrary to popular belief, most girls in NYC are not only out to find ex Harvard lacrosse players working at Goldman and making 400k. Sure, they're out there, but as long as you don't try to find your soulmate on Stone St. for the financial district happy hours or at lounges that have velvet ropes and bottle service you'll be fine.
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