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I want to know my options as far as moving to new york with little money. I have a job opportunity that just lined up. i dont have enought money to put down for an appartment.But i dont want to not get the job and save up more then not find another job for months. Is there a way i could move there and stay somewhere really cheap or some sort of free community housing?? All i need is about 1-2 months to save more money. Again i will have a pretty decent job when i get there but when i first arrive i will have very little WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS???!!!!!
It can be done, but will be tricky. Save as much as you can before moving. Sell everything from your current home that you don't need. Get a loan, if possible. You can easily find someone on craigslist renting a furnished room by the week or month. Not sure what your budget it, but the more roomates there are, usually the cheaper it is. Just come here with your bare essentials in a few suitcases. You can make it work if you really want to be here. You're lucky to be coming here with a job opportunity - it's usually very hard for an out of towner to get a job offer here unless you're very senior or have a very niche profession.
Since you are low on cash, I'm sure you won't find the most convenient or glamorous place, but who cares - you'll be in NYC. Stay in your cheap housing as long as possible and use it as an opportunity to save up lots of cash so you can be more selective in your next move.
Oh wow, I didn't realize someone would be able to save $100. Not sure why anyone would be concerned about moving here with savings if you can save $100 when here. If you stick to one $1 slice of pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you can easily get by for a month - I mean assuming there's no tax and and you spend $7 on everything else for the month.
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Originally Posted by luvnyc
This isn't always true.
Depends on the career or profession.
I worked 37 1/2 hour in my home town and was lucky if I had enough to have pizza delivered.
Whereas working in NY I ALWAYS had at least $100 and up leftover after taxes and paying bills in each paycheck.
I've never used Couchsurfing before but perhaps check there and see if you can stay in someone's living room until you get on your feet?
Since NYC is so expensive there are tons of people out there trying to rent out parts in their (already teeny) apartments to knock the price of their rent down. So you could look into it? Since it is the summer, I'm sure college students will be returning home and will be trying to sublease their place for a few months which would give you enough time to save up (depending on how you manage your money, and how much you're making) for an apartment.
Oh wow, I didn't realize someone would be able to save $100. Not sure why anyone would be concerned about moving here with savings if you can save $100 when here. If you stick to one $1 slice of pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you can easily get by for a month - I mean assuming there's no tax and and you spend $7 on everything else for the month.
This was per check smart butt, I had several hundred leftover after rent and bills. Something that would never happen back home at the time.
It can be done, but will be tricky. Save as much as you can before moving. Sell everything from your current home that you don't need. Get a loan, if possible. You can easily find someone on craigslist renting a furnished room by the week or month. Not sure what your budget it, but the more roomates there are, usually the cheaper it is. Just come here with your bare essentials in a few suitcases. You can make it work if you really want to be here. You're lucky to be coming here with a job opportunity - it's usually very hard for an out of towner to get a job offer here unless you're very senior or have a very niche profession.
Since you are low on cash, I'm sure you won't find the most convenient or glamorous place, but who cares - you'll be in NYC. Stay in your cheap housing as long as possible and use it as an opportunity to save up lots of cash so you can be more selective in your next move.
Good advice. I did this and whatever I didn't sell I put in storage to get later. OP sale anything you can do without but keep what would be expensive to replace here in NYC.
This is what I'd done also.
OP since summer is due soon, check with college campuses. When I returned to live here Brooklyn Tech opened their newly built dorms to the public for the summer. It was very reasonable, safe, clean, with security and free cable/wi-fi and laundry facilities in the basement. I don't know if they're doing this anymore but you could inquire.
Craigslist. Find a furnished room, but be careful of scams. A shelter, believe it or not, is an option. there's a men's shelter on 30th st and 1st ave. If you go that route, though, only sleep there. get a cheap gym membership, and use their facilities for showering, etc, daily. Also, be gone in no more than 3-4 weeks, or they'll ship you to another facility, most likely the one by yankee stadium in the bronx. When looking at furnished rooms, look at jersey city. cheaper, and only a 30 min commute to manhattan.
Sorry, and as it is possible to obtain nationality in America, having simply arrived to New York. And in general really to make it. Long ago I dreamed to get over to America.
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