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I don't mind taking the train for entertainment, but I want to live in a true neighborhood with at least a few shops/bars/restaurants I can become a regular at. I want to feel like home, not just the place I pass out at night.
Most of my friends live in the East Village and Brooklyn.
On my list of places to consider:
LES
Alphabet City
BK Heights
Carroll Gardens
Fort Green
Clinton Hill
I don't mind taking the train for entertainment, but I want to live in a true neighborhood with at least a few shops/bars/restaurants I can become a regular at. I want to feel like home, not just the place I pass out at night.
Most of my friends live in the East Village and Brooklyn.
On my list of places to consider:
LES
Alphabet City
BK Heights
Carroll Gardens
Fort Green
Clinton Hill
Thoughts?
I don't think you can afford a 1 br apartment in any of those neighborhoods with a 48K income.Not even sure you will find a studio because you shouldn't be spending more than about 900/mo on rent.Maybe a dumpy one with great effort.
You will have to either find a share or look into more obscure,further removed neighborhoods.
Find a roommate. That way you can afford an decent apartment in a great neighborhood. Some people make the mistake insisting on living alone when they first move to the city. They end up in a really crappy apartment in a sketchy and inconvenient part of town. They become miserable and end of hating the city. $48K is a great salary straight out of school, but it's not enough to get you a one-bedroom in a cool neighborhood.
Find a roommate. That way you can afford an decent apartment in a great neighborhood. Some people make the mistake insisting on living alone when they first move to the city. They end up in a really crappy apartment in a sketchy and inconvenient part of town. They become miserable and end of hating the city. $48K is a great salary straight out of school, but it's not enough to get you a one-bedroom in a cool neighborhood.
You don't necessarily have to wind up in crappy apartment or in a sketchy neighborhood.And convenient or inconvenient very much depends on your daily schedule and routine.I teach in The Bronx and found Williamsburg extremely inconvenient.
There are lots of affordable,totally not sketchy, maybe even pleasant neighborhoods in NYC that are filled with really nice big apartments in very nice buildings.
The neighborhoods are definitely not trendy however and that's the trade off.The crappy apartment in a sketchy neighborhood is easily avoidable as long as you don't care how trendy the neighborhood is. For some unknown reason,crappy apartments in sketchy neighborhoods are becoming trendy so people are paying too much for those too.
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