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The population of NYC is higher than all those cities. You also have to factor the amount of people that commute from NJ, CT, MA, PA, and NY for jobs in the city. You add 40 million annual tourist and this city becomes expensive, dirty, crowded, etc.
Not sure how that list was made but the quality of life is way different in Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland. The cost of living is pretty high in NYC and the quality of life can vary greatly depending on your income/education/etc.
It might not be an apples to apples comparison. NYC has ghettos and hoods that bring down the average. Some of those other cities don’t have Bushwicks and South Bronxes.
The population of NYC is higher than all those cities. You also have to factor the amount of people that commute from NJ, CT, MA, PA, and NY for jobs in the city. You add 40 million annual tourist and this city becomes expensive, dirty, crowded, etc.
Not sure how that list was made but the quality of life is way different in Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland. The cost of living is pretty high in NYC and the quality of life can vary greatly depending on your income/education/etc.
I had a boss that lived in Boston stayed in CT apt to work in NYC. He would go back home to Boston on Friday. I remember on NPR a guy that lived in Florida and took a flight to NYC everyday. (he worked in Finance)
They are crazier commutes called super-commuters. 5 hour plus commutes.
It might not be an apples to apples comparison. NYC has ghettos and hoods that bring down the average. Some of those other cities don’t have Bushwicks and South Bronxes.
You mean rapidly gentrifying Bushwick that draws many European tourists? And NYC's hoods aren't cheap anyway, it costs more to live there than the nice parts of most other US cities.
I had a boss that lived in Boston stayed in CT apt to work in NYC. He would go back home to Boston on Friday. I remember on NPR a guy that lived in Florida and take a flight to NYC everyday. (he worked in Finance)
They are crazier commutes called super-commuters. 5 hour plus commutes.
It might not be an apples to apples comparison. NYC has ghettos and hoods that bring down the average. Some of those other cities don’t have Bushwicks and South Bronxes.
Pretty much this. There are large swaths in NYC that people without ghetto desires don't want to buy in or would buy just to collect rent and don't want to live in. Because of this foreign money even goes to the wealthy suburbs of NYC.
Pretty much this. There are large swaths in NYC that people without ghetto desires don't want to buy in or would buy just to collect rent and don't want to live in. Because of this foreign money even goes to the wealthy suburbs of NYC.
Look at the rents in the "hood", they're not even low anymore. It costs more to live in Brownsville than a nice neighborhood in most other US cities. It costs almost as much as many of the nicer NYC neighborhoods too, for that matter.
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