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What is it like living in heavy populated New York city? Is it easy getting work jobs and easy making friends? How long does it get used to the busy New York City way of life?
Two years tells the tale. Most that can not deal with the gotham grind will leave in that time span. The ones who can survive stay longer. Making friends depend on you and your personality. Come to NYC, strong, healthy and wealthy. If you are poor and come to NYC and you make it you can bask in your glory. If you fail you can always go some place else where it is slower and quieter.
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Asking these questions is like asking what kind of food do people eat...Its not a general question. Its different for everyone. Perhaps you should ask people to share their stories about when the moved here and if the found work easily and made friends.
It's great. NYC has to be the most challenging and rewarding city in the US. But it does suck when you open your paycheck and see that NYS & NYC have taken 40% of your money. Not even a please or thank you
I think living in NYC makes it harder to make friends. The only way to deal with being so close to so many people is to put on your blinders. Example, you can be almost smashed nose to nose in a crowded subway car but you always avert your eyes. Same thing when you walk down the street for the most part. You might acknowledge someone on the street with brief eye contact or a head nod but you don't say hi to everyone you see. People also tend to stay in their social circles. There is a lot of segragation by income level and race here.
What is it like living in heavy populated New York city? Is it easy getting work jobs and easy making friends? How long does it get used to the busy New York City way of life?
What is it like living in heavy populated New York City? I love living in a heavily populated city. I knew before I moved here that I wanted a condensed, walkable city.
Is it easy getting around work/jobs? Yes, I personally find that it is easy, relative to where I came from (Houston). The MTA (NYC public transportation system) can be quite frustrating. Delays, detours, suicides, local lines running express, express lines running local, construction, weather-related changes, fair hikes, and vague "incidents" and "investigations" making it difficult to go where I need to go. But I will take the MTA on its worst day than navigating Houston sprawl, detours, construction, accidents, soul-sucking traffic, and sky-rocketing gas prices, even on its best day. And on public transit, someone else is doing the driving. Even in standing-room-only, shoulder-to-shoulder rush hour, I have my headphones in and I'm enjoying my books on tape.
Is it easy making friends? It was difficult for me. I am not the most outgoing person. Having roommates helped, because I at least knew them, and I eventually became friends with their friends. I was also working and in grad school, and for the most part coworkers and classmates already had their social circles and didn't seem interested in making new friends, but I got close to a few. I still don't have a lot of friends, but I have a few close friends, which is my preference anyway.
How long does it take to get used to the busy NYC way of life? I'm busy with work and school..so within a few weeks I was in the grind myself!
Good luck!!! Going on 2 years for me and I love it!
I don't think making friends is too hard, it's keeping them. NYC is a transient city so many people are moving in and out. I had so many friends when I went to undergrad in Manhattan and then slowly my friends moved to Chicago, L.A., or back home. Then there's also the borough thing--you hit it off with someone but you're from Queens and they're from The Bronx. You will try to get together and meet up but it will be so difficult b/c of work schedules and the distance that you are from one another that eventually this friendship will fizzle out.
Jobs can be hard to find these days- but it depends on what field you are in. I have a few friends that were laid off last year and it took them all around 7-8 months to find another job. Many of them ended up settling for jobs not in their field.
I don't think making friends is too hard, it's keeping them. NYC is a transient city so many people are moving in and out. I had so many friends when I went to undergrad in Manhattan and then slowly my friends moved to Chicago, L.A., or back home. Then there's also the borough thing--you hit it off with someone but you're from Queens and they're from The Bronx. You will try to get together and meet up but it will be so difficult b/c of work schedules and the distance that you are from one another that eventually this friendship will fizzle out.
Jobs can be hard to find these days- but it depends on what field you are in. I have a few friends that were laid off last year and it took them all around 7-8 months to find another job. Many of them ended up settling for jobs not in their field.
Yes, I cannot agree with you more. It is pretty sad to establish a close friendship with someone over a few months..only for them to decide that NY isn't for them, or that they aren't for NY, and go back home. This has happened to me more than once. Or have a friend that you see regularly move to Queens and essentially vanish. It is pretty sad that these people I had a genuine, easy connection with, which doesn't happen very often, are now just facebook friends.
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What is it like living in heavy populated New York city? Is it easy getting work jobs and easy making friends? How long does it get used to the busy New York City way of life?
i would say it was easy for me to make friends faster than anywhere i have ever been. maybe i just meshed with new yorkers but back home, i had no friends or no life. the busiest is overwhelming at first but if you have someone who can teach you, you can learn it in 2 weeks, i learned the whole subway line and locations in a 2 week vacation stay(and i'm a person with serious anxiety problems but not here!). now getting jobs...thats another story
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