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I still don't understand why you want to move from one bad neighborhood to another. It doesn't make sense.
There is a difference between moving from a bad neighborhood to another one. I am moving from a CITY that is bad all over! Neighborhoods you can step out of a whole city is hard to get away from when you have no trains, buses or anything to help take you away!
Yes, lets move so we can be close to the botanical gardens, while putting five people in a two bedroom apartment in the hood, with mom and dad sleeping on a murphey bed in the living room. Makes perfect sense.
There is a difference between moving from a bad neighborhood to another one. I am moving from a CITY that is bad all over! Neighborhoods you can step out of a whole city is hard to get away from when you have no trains, buses or anything to help take you away!
Most of the things you mention will be a "commute" from anywhere you are. Even if it's on the subway. Say you live in middle village and want to go to the bronx zoo, it's still an hour and 45 minutes each way and you have to change trains. Do you think your 5 year old will really enjoy being on a close to two hour train ride and waiting on the platform when it's 97 degrees above ground?
Most of the things you mention will be a "commute" from anywhere you are. Even if it's on the subway. Say you live in middle village and want to go to the bronx zoo, it's still an hour and 45 minutes each way and you have to change trains. Do you think your 5 year old will really enjoy being on a close to two hour train ride and waiting on the platform when it's 97 degrees above ground?
But Middle Village is closer to the Prospect Park Zoo and Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. We have to DRIVE 2.5 hours to go to a zoo in Chicago right now. A train is a lot more adventurous than a car for a 5 year old. Do you know how much money in GAS that costs! For all that gas money I can buy a monthly pass on the Metro for cheaper.
Yes, lets move so we can be close to the botanical gardens, while putting five people in a two bedroom apartment in the hood, with mom and dad sleeping on a murphey bed in the living room. Makes perfect sense.
Your idea of the "hood" must be different than my idea. Also We do it right now in our small house with no place to go within the city we live in at all for ALL 3 of my kids.
Argh. I should just stop reading this thread. OP only wants to hear what she wants to hear, and she has now found a friend in G-Dale. Does anyone who lives here actually think that a landlord is going to rent a $1500/mo 2-bedroom apartment in a nice neighborhood like Middle Village to a family of 5 that only can show a steady income of $35K per year, when they could rent it to a nice couple with no kids who has an actual dependable, prove-able income of 60K?
OF COURSE NOT. Maybe G-Dale will chime in and say he thinks it's possible. It's not going to happen! I don't care about the other $25K that supposedly comes in from homemade jewelry sales. Landlords won't care about that either because it's not dependable income, and I highly doubt that $25K is what's going down on the income line on the Schedule C anyway.
I keep telling myself I won't post in this thread anymore, but I can't help myself. In what world is Middle Village an easy commute to Prospect Park? Queens residents, feel free to weigh in; I'm a Brooklynite and not that familiar with Queens. However, Middle Village is not known for great public transportation options, which is why it's relatively cheap.
I am curious what OP's 70-year old husband thinks of her plans.
I keep telling myself I won't post in this thread anymore, but I can't help myself. In what world is Middle Village an easy commute to Prospect Park? Queens residents, feel free to weigh in; I'm a Brooklynite and not that familiar with Queens. However, Middle Village is not known for great public transportation options, which is why it's relatively cheap.
I am curious what OP's 70-year old husband thinks of her plans.
My husband loves the plan as he loves new adventures.
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