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This is one reason. Read the entire article. It's a great troll piece by the NYT and it's a great reason to hate transplants.
There's so much transplant-speak to discuss in this article.
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Roommates Divide and Conquer With Temporary Walls
When four young professionals share a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment, a strategy for the morning routine is a necessity.
Katherine Neal, who works in sales, and Annie Jackson, who works in public relations, take the first shifts in the bathroom. Ms. Neal gets in there at 6:45 a.m. and has 15 minutes before it’s Ms. Jackson’s turn. By the time Ms. Jackson finishes up, their male roommates, Michael Morgan, who works in advertising, and Andrew Bell, also in sales, are back from the gym in the building.
“It’s like living in a dorm,” Ms. Jackson, 26, said of her financial district rental. And that goes beyond the coed bathroom. Ms. Jackson and Ms. Neal sleep in twin beds in the bedroom, and share a vanity and a bench when they get ready in the morning, to avoid hogging the bathroom.
For the male roommates, the group installed a T-shaped wall in the living room, dividing it into two bedrooms, leaving space for a kitchen table in a common area. Mr. Morgan and Mr. Bell have hardly any privacy; building regulations require the bedroom walls to stop about two feet shy of the ceiling. “You can hear everything,” Ms. Jackson said.
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While they live in dormlike conditions, Ms. Jackson and her roommates are not in college anymore. They are gainfully employed 20-somethings, trying their hardest to make living in New York City affordable. Each pays under $1,000 a month, toward a total rent of $3,750.
The problem is not transplants. The problem is the city is not building enough housing and what is being built is way too expensive for anyone except for the top 5%.
The city, or any city for that matter, is going to have people moving in. That's what a healthy, growing city is. The key is making room for the growth, otherwise the newcomers with more money and the higher paying jobs are going to displace the ones here that have less money and can't afford the higher prices.
It's that simple. Hating transplants won't help anything.
No one can't hate the Transplants on these ones. They are just trying to get by and do more by living in appealing area. I while having less space and privacy. The real problems here are landlords for making rents not so affordable, however being an landlord in nyc is an expensive ordeal. Two tranplants do not live in far flung neighborhoods. I. Have a coworker from California. I told him, if I was from California and I moved to nyc. I would have to live in an hip area like Williamsburg. You won't be cool living in a Jamaica Queens.
The best way for rents to come down is probably world war 3 were transplants fear moving to NYC due to concerns of Chinese or Russian warheads destroying everything centered in the. Manhattan ground zero.
Two. Let employers create job offices near college campuses so that tranplants won't move to nyc. Rents will drop down.
No one can't hate the Transplants on these ones. They are just trying to get by and do more by living in appealing area. I while having less space and privacy. The real problems here are landlords for making rents not so affordable, however being an landlord in nyc is an expensive ordeal. Two tranplants do not live in far flung neighborhoods. I. Have a coworker from California. I told him, if I was from California and I moved to nyc. I would have to live in an hip area like Williamsburg. You won't be cool living in a Jamaica Queens.
The best way for rents to come down is probably world war 3 were transplants fear moving to NYC due to concerns of Chinese or Russian warheads destroying everything centered in the. Manhattan ground zero.
Two. Let employers create job offices near college campuses so that tranplants won't move to nyc. Rents will drop down.
How can you blame the landlords? These fools do this to themselves. This is not "just trying to get by" behavior. These are asshats who don't want to let go of the college lifestyle.
Call a spade a spade. They're morons.
Compare what the general outlook is on immigrants who live multiple families to a unit to these asshats.
Don't get caught up in the white hype.
No one can't hate the Transplants on these ones. They are just trying to get by and do more by living in appealing area. I while having less space and privacy. The real problems here are landlords for making rents not so affordable, however being an landlord in nyc is an expensive ordeal. Two tranplants do not live in far flung neighborhoods. I. Have a coworker from California. I told him, if I was from California and I moved to nyc. I would have to live in an hip area like Williamsburg. You won't be cool living in a Jamaica Queens.
The best way for rents to come down is probably world war 3 were transplants fear moving to NYC due to concerns of Chinese or Russian warheads destroying everything centered in the. Manhattan ground zero.
Two. Let employers create job offices near college campuses so that tranplants won't move to nyc. Rents will drop down.
There is no one single problem for high rents but this is certainly part of the equation.
I don't really take any issue with this. Not in the business of telling people how they should live their lives. These people are choosing to live in small apartments in exchange for a prime location. Their choice.
1. Such a high acceptance of living with roommates
2. People getting priced out of expensive neighborhoods overpaying in formerly less expensive neighborhoods.
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