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Our combined income to start is over $200,000. Does the above still apply?
The "above" always applies , but two taking in $200,000, you can live quite comfortably without those work-related perks and not have to look for change in the gutter.
“Here, if they do buy you a drink, which is rare, you have to suffer through flirtations. It’s true,” she said, adding, “It’s really cheesy.”
Women like this make all of us look bad. What a wench!
These people are just unrealistic idiots for the most part who probably believed all the 20 somethings in NYC live it up in apartments like they showed on "Friends." All I can say is too bad, so sad. When are you moving back to flyover country where the apartment complexes give you your choice of colors in carpeting and drapes?
Even a cheap condo in these parts in a crappy neighborhood is $200k...after everything is taken into consideration (mortgage, insurance, PMI, utilities, fees, etc.), you're looking at $1,500-1,800 a month...which even at 60k is about half of one's net salary.
$1800/mo. on a $200,000 condo? No way, not even with common charges, if you're talking about a $160,000 mortgage (20% down).
“Here, if they do buy you a drink, which is rare, you have to suffer through flirtations. It’s true,” she said, adding, “It’s really cheesy.”
Women like this make all of us look bad. What a wench!
These people are just unrealistic idiots for the most part who probably believed all the 20 somethings in NYC live it up in apartments like they showed on "Friends." All I can say is too bad, so sad. When are you moving back to flyover country where the apartment complexes give you your choice of colors in carpeting and drapes?
I'll be honest; as someone who's moving to New York from Texas to start his career in a couple of months, that article along with THIS FORUM make me feel like I should be ready to live in Hooverville and eat pork and beans every night....and I'll be making more than twice that amount to start. Sometimes I feel like some of you underestimate the cost of living in some places relative to New York City. Not so much with housing, but with some other things. For example, car insurance. I've looked at the rates in the City, and they're actually less than what I pay here in Houston, Texas. Example 2: groceries. I've seen people act like paying $6 for a six-pack of Coors/Miller/Bud Light is a lot, but that's the same price we pay down here. Obviously I haven't ever lived there, but sometimes I think that there's a little bit of misinformation going around on here. I might be wrong.
As someone who moved from NYC to Texas I can tell you that Texas is MUCH cheaper than NYC. I think people on this board try and paint as realistic a picture as they can for people who have never lived in NYC before. Sure, you will be comfortable on your salary (my husband is a lawyer as well and we both work and make good money) but things are more expensive in the city. I went back to NYC after living in Texas for almost a year and was shocked at what things cost compared to down here. But you'll like NYC more than TX..and least I did!
they're "problems" aren't even worth writing about. that's nothing compared to the various problems of native new yorkers in some of the poorer areas of the city.
NYC has more opportunities to succeed than any place in the country, there should be very few poor native New Yorkers.
NYC has a higher concentration of opportunities, also a higher concentration of wannabes. They cancel each other out. And for every position of so-called success (whatever that is), there is still a pyramid of support underneath, including hotel maids, day workers, messengers, busboys, nannies, etc. Whether earn more than the national poverty line is dubious, but even if they do, I doubt they take their families to Disneyworld every year.
$1800/mo. on a $200,000 condo? No way, not even with common charges, if you're talking about a $160,000 mortgage (20% down).
Well, let's check it out...at $160k (assuming you have a 20% downpayment, which most 20-somethings don't have), you're looking at a $967 mortgage payment on today's fixed rates. Taxes on a $2,000 condo are probably $200 a month...utilities are probably $150-200...condo fees are generally in the $200 range, and insurance is probably another $50 or so. That brings you up to $1,600. If you have less of a down payment, add on extra mortgage payments and PMI.
And this is the absolute cheapest you can get.
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, but two taking in $200,000, you can live quite comfortably without those work-related perks and not have to look for change in the gutter.
What do you expect from unrealistic idiots?
