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I don't get it. You start out saying you didn't leave due to affordability, then you launch into a whole long thing about how much more affordable your expenses are in your new location. If you didn't leave due to salary or affordability, why is that what you are choosing to emphasize
Also, I don't know what your specific living situation was in Brooklyn (nor does it matter) but I would like to mention that many/most choose to live a long distance/commute time from Manhattan because they can more easily afford a place in that further-out location. If you chose to live in a far-out area of Brooklyn that causes you to have a long commute, but still claim that you were making plenty of money, that doesn't make sense to me.
As to your first statement; The cost of getting a home was not an issue. The costs associated with owning a home were. If we take property taxes as an example. Here its around $1600. When I left NYC it was $8000 for a home 1/2 the size sitting on 5% of the property I currently have. If you don't understand that its fees/taxes nibbling away at ones net then you will never get it.
As to your second statement both are around 25 miles.
For the ex-NYrs I've met over the past few years, most had paychecks large enough to stay in NYC. But like me, the expenses outside of COL chipped away at the net pretty quickly. A simple parking ticket down here is around $15, yet its $115 in NYC. Add up all the fees and they make a major difference.
Parking ticket is not a good comparison. Park where you're supposed to and you wont have to pay $115 or $15.
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As to your first statement; The cost of getting a home was not an issue. The costs associated with owning a home were. If we take property taxes as an example. Here its around $1600. When I left NYC it was $8000 for a home 1/2 the size sitting on 5% of the property I currently have. If you don't understand that its fees/taxes nibbling away at ones net then you will never get it.
As to your second statement both are around 25 miles.
So like she said - you could not afford it. If you could afford what you wanted in NYC you wouldn't even be speaking on this. But you can't, therefore you speak.
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Parking ticket is not a good comparison. Park where you're supposed to and you wont have to pay $115 or $15.
It's an excellent point to bring up. NYC for years use the NYPD and meter maids as a source of revenue for city coffers. Why would you bang out a middle class/working class guy with such an excessive ticket?? Same reason NYC/NYS taxes the living hell out of people for cigarettes/Cigars. Clothing/New cars/Car Insurance. When you start adding up all these things that leads to people leaving.
As to your first statement; The cost of getting a home was not an issue. The costs associated with owning a home were. If we take property taxes as an example. Here its around $1600. When I left NYC it was $8000 for a home 1/2 the size sitting on 5% of the property I currently have. If you don't understand that its fees/taxes nibbling away at ones net then you will never get it.
As to your second statement both are around 25 miles.
Of course I get that it's expensive here to have the best of everything, including a short commute time. If and when I leave, I will be the first to admit it's because I couldn't afford the type of life/size home, better neighborhood, etc. I could have if I had more money.
What I don't get is your starting out a post downplaying the issue of affordability and then go on to prove that's all you can talk about.
It's an excellent point to bring up. NYC for years use the NYPD and meter maids as a source of revenue for city coffers. Why would you bang out a middle class/working class guy with such an excessive ticket?? Same reason NYC/NYS taxes the living hell out of people for cigarettes/Cigars. Clothing/New cars/Car Insurance. When you start adding up all these things that leads to people leaving.
Why not just park where you're supposed to??? I haven't gotten a parking ticket in like 8 years.
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Why not just park where you're supposed to??? I haven't gotten a parking ticket in like 8 years.
Sure everyone should park legally but sometimes crap happens. But to bang someone out for some families a day/half a days wages?? I would say that's excessive. Also that's a small part of the daily taxes that people pay to live here.
Sure everyone should park legally but sometimes crap happens. But to bang someone out for some families a day/half a days wages?? I would say that's excessive. Also that's a small part of the daily taxes that people pay to live here.
Name a city that doesnt cost as much as NYC but offers its residents the same level of service that NYC does.
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