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Maybe I just have very bad luck with neighbors/buildings Lived in around 30 apartments, old, new in between and always hear neighbors. Though I mostly have lived in Studios, with that sound echos and you have no room to escape when your neighbor bothers you. Although I did live in some one bedrooms and could hear neighbors, I'd just go to the other room then if they annoyed me. So yah I guess I just bad luck
30 apartments!? To quote my poor dead mother, oy vey iz mir! I absolutely could never do that much moving in my life. Nope. Not happening.
Most of Astoria is fine. I would just stay away from the areas near the housing projects in Astoria, which is easy enough to do since they are out of the way. With the economy in the toilet, I'd move there if I were you and work out a deal with a landlord offering concessions (i.e. free months of rent, etc.) Lock in a two year deal. You can easily put away $3,000 a month after all of your expenses, perhaps more.
Quite frankly, $2500 is a healthy budget in most of Manhattan now. Most landlords are desperate for renters.
It's healthy for now.
Until the other schmucks get corralled back into the city.
30 apartments!? To quote my poor dead mother, oy vey iz mir! I absolutely could never do that much moving in my life. Nope. Not happening.
Right?! I've moved 3 times and after the last one I said never again, it was a big move. Now, we may have a much, much bigger move on the horizon and I'm already dreading it.
Until the other schmucks get corralled back into the city.
Astoria is likely to stay moderately priced.
Rents go up and down in this City. Always been that way. We have bubbles. Look at 2007. The market was hot... The bubble burst occurred in 2008. People love boasting about how "little money" people have here in NYC, as if everyone is making $100,000 - 200,000 plus. Same crap in 2007. Everyone was living it up, getting loans on things they couldn't afford, and then the bubble exploded. Similar thing now, even before COVID. People were running up credit cards trying to keep up with the Joneses. Debt piling up. If it wasn't COVID, something else would've happened.
The OP is doing just fine. Most Americans barely have enough money in savings to even cover a month of expenses, and he's able to put away $2500 a month. Maybe on this forum there are more money savvy types (I hope), but that definitely is not the case outside of it. I admit that I don't put away $2500 a month. I try to do $1000 - 1500 a month, but my employer puts money into an IRA I have so that helps, but again, still doing much better than most folks and I'm still in my 30s. lol
30 apartments!? To quote my poor dead mother, oy vey iz mir! I absolutely could never do that much moving in my life. Nope. Not happening.
Yes I love moving. Each apartment, each neighborhood is a new life experience. If it wasn't for covid I would've moved somewhere new. But when your freelance and both your jobs have been put on pause, your not looking good to landlord's to rent.
New York has a wonderful variety of places in which people can live. Apartments, SFH, duplexes, pre-war (that's WWII), semi-attached, . . .
I prefer the west side of Manhattan. I love being near Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, theaters, and all the restaurants. The east side has museum row. The boroughs have larger apartments and sometimes a back yard! As with most things in life, there are trade-offs.
As I am getting older, I prefer the convenience of Manhattan. Everything I want or need is close by. When I was younger, I lived in the boroughs, but always drove to the city for the weekend. [Note that where I grew up, Manhattan was "the city".] Needed a car in the borough, but sold it when I moved to the city.
I've lived in three of the five boroughs. Prefer Manhattan.
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Lived in around 30 apartments, old, new in between and always hear neighbors. Though I mostly have lived in Studios, with that sound echos and you have no room to escape when your neighbor bothers you. Although I did live in some one bedrooms and could hear neighbors, I'd just go to the other room then if they annoyed me. So yah I guess I just bad luck 
Same crap in 2007. Everyone was living it up, getting loans on things they couldn't afford, and then the bubble exploded. Similar thing now, even before COVID. People were running up credit cards trying to keep up with the Joneses. Debt piling up. If it wasn't COVID, something else would've happened. 
