[Mize]

I'm going to put my money on L-B being the type of guy who likes to walk to bars and walk home.

[london-boy]

Originally Posted by Mize

I'm going to put my money on L-B being the type of guy who likes to walk to bars and walk home.

Funny thing is, it's true!

[eastmen]

Originally Posted by london-boy

Funny thing is, it's true!

You can do that in East Rutherford , you can also look into hoboken. Its expensive but right across the river and its still cheaper. Its also a college town and very popular for jersey people to head into.

Prob looking at 1k a month for a studio. 2k for a 1bed room. About $800 less than the city.

I've had many a drunk night in hoboken much better looking girls than in the city (though i doubt you'd care about that !)

[london-boy]

Originally Posted by eastmen

You can do that in East Rutherford , you can also look into hoboken. Its expensive but right across the river and its still cheaper. Its also a college town and very popular for jersey people to head into.

Prob looking at 1k a month for a studio. 2k for a 1bed room. About $800 less than the city.

I've had many a drunk night in hoboken much better looking girls than in the city (though i doubt you'd care about that !)

Well i'm one of those crazy people who actually believes that living in a nice place increases the quality of life and is happy spending more than half of his monthly salary on rent... On, say, 100k, that's quite a large budget for rent.
That 'nice place' would include being very central.
In NY 'being central' doesn't really mean much as i'd happily live pretty much anywhere in Manhattan, but it will have to be Manhattan. Not really anywhere, but at least there are a few areas i can choose from. Like London, really.

[eastmen]

Originally Posted by london-boy

Well i'm one of those crazy people who actually believes that living in a nice place increases the quality of life and is happy spending more than half of his monthly salary on rent... On, say, 100k, that's quite a large budget for rent.
That 'nice place' would include being very central.
In NY 'being central' doesn't really mean much as i'd happily live pretty much anywhere in Manhattan, but it will have to be Manhattan. Not really anywhere, but at least there are a few areas i can choose from. Like London, really.

Hoboken is much newer. It was a slum in the 80s and in the late 90s exploded into brand new condos . The construction on most of the city is brand new. You can hope on the water way , bus or path and be in the city in less than 5 minutes.


But like I said if you have to live in the city your going to pay for it. Manhattan is easily going to be 3 times the rent of what you'd get Hoboken and most likely double what you'd pay in brooklyn or queens.

You can find yourself devoting much of your pay check into just having a place to sleep.

[Mize]

Originally Posted by london-boy

Well i'm one of those crazy people who actually believes that living in a nice place increases the quality of life and is happy spending more than half of his monthly salary on rent... On, say, 100k, that's quite a large budget for rent.
That 'nice place' would include being very central.
In NY 'being central' doesn't really mean much as i'd happily live pretty much anywhere in Manhattan, but it will have to be Manhattan. Not really anywhere, but at least there are a few areas i can choose from. Like London, really.

L-B strikes me as "the Village" (Greenwich Village) people. It's obvious.
Nice place if you're a walking-to-party person,

[Mize]

You can get a nice 1 BR apartment in Greenwich Village for under $3k/month easy.
You can buy a $300k house in New Jersey for the same amount

[Simon F]

Originally Posted by Mize

You can get a nice 1 BR apartment in Greenwich Village for under $3k/month easy.
You can buy a $300k house in New Jersey for the same amount

Given a choice, I think I'd be more inclined to go for the original.

[eastmen]

Originally Posted by Mize

You can get a nice 1 BR apartment in Greenwich Village for under $3k/month easy.
You can buy a $300k house in New Jersey for the same amount

Not in bergen or hudson county. Its going to cost 500k easily

[Fred]

The West Village is more artsy people (typically 30 somes), Chelsea is more common for the gay community, but pretty much anywhere downtown will have nightlife and a good vibe.

Manhattan is pretty inexpensive aside from the rent (or if your company/school/whatever finds you a place). It is not like London where you spend an absolute fortune on cabs and everything under the sun. Things like laundry, food, cleaning materials are readily findable for not so much (if you know where to go)

Now, of course if you party every night, and want to eat at the good restaurants, buy the good art and so forth, then yes it is expensive.

But i've been here for a number of years, and get by just fine on a researchers salary so take it for what its worth.

The biggest cost reducer in Manhattan is the fact that you don't need a car, and typically the girls here don't require the men to spend a fortune on them (they often have more than I do anyway). The biggest expense (other than rent) is having rich friends who can trivially afford to go on vacations whenever they want, play at golf clubs, buy bottles at night clubs and the like... Its very easy to get caught up in that lifestyle and its embarrasing when you can't necessarily follow them.

[Gerry]

Originally Posted by Fred

Manhattan is pretty inexpensive aside from the rent (or if your company/school/whatever finds you a place). It is not like London where you spend an absolute fortune on cabs and everything under the sun. Things like laundry, food, cleaning materials are readily findable for not so much (if you know where to go)

Sounds exactly like London to me. Not sure why you'd need to take cabs all the time in London but not Manhattan.

[Davros]

Originally Posted by eastmen

Manhattan is easily going to be 3 times the rent of what you'd get Hoboken and most likely double what you'd pay in brooklyn or queens.

There you go, I'm, sure LB would love to visit Queens

[_xxx_]

Originally Posted by london-boy

Well this is not something i'm actively planning so if it happens, we're talking in one or more years, not months!!

By then the USA will be a disrupted third-world country anyway, so your dilemma will be resolved automatically.

Ok, I'll stop derailing the thread now

[london-boy]

Originally Posted by _xxx_

By then the USA will be a disrupted third-world country anyway, so your dilemma will be resolved automatically.

i like to be optimistic!

[eastmen]

Originally Posted by _xxx_

By then the USA will be a disrupted third-world country anyway, so your dilemma will be resolved automatically.

Ok, I'll stop derailing the thread now

Still be a better place than Europe .... by the way how is that euro doing ?

[Mize]

Originally Posted by _xxx_

By then the USA will be a disrupted third-world country anyway, so your dilemma will be resolved automatically.

Ah, but at least we won't have to eat English cuisine.

[_xxx_]

eastmen: euro is about to go the way of the dodo in a few weeks or months, of course. It's 80% backed by the dollar btw, so when (not if, but when) euro goes titsup, dollar will instantly follow.

Mize: that indeed is a great thing, at least something to be happy about.

[london-boy]

Originally Posted by _xxx_

eastmen: euro is about to go the way of the dodo in a few weeks or months, of course. It's 80% backed by the dollar btw, so when (not if, but when) euro goes titsup, dollar will instantly follow.

Really?? Cause now it's so disproportioned compared to the pound, it's ridiculous! I go to Italy and i can't buy anything, it's crazy!

[_xxx_]

Why do you wonder, the UK fucked up even worse than the rest of EU. Look at the Obama thread in RPSC if you're interested, it was discussed there so no need to spoil your thread with that discussion.

[Gerry]

Originally Posted by Mize

Ah, but at least we won't have to eat English cuisine.

At least it's better than German cuisine.

I see _xxx_ has made another one of his predictions. Who's going to place a bet with him that the Euro will still exist "in a couple of months"?

[Mize]

Originally Posted by Gerry

I see _xxx_ has made another one of his predictions.

How is this "another one"? Seems there all basically the same.

[Gerry]

Originally Posted by Mize

How is this "another one"? Seems there all basically the same.

hehe OK. Another very specific prediction that will be easily verifiable in a relative short spate of time.

1.1.2011
a) Has the United States descended into anarchy?
b) Has the Euro been scrapped?

[Mize]

I'm saving bottle caps since they'll probably be the new world currency after the collapse of civilization.
Oh, and since the world is ending I bought a new car today. Yippeee!

[_xxx_]

Originally Posted by Gerry

At least it's better than German cuisine.

ROTFLMAO, no comment (and no, I'm not German at all)

I see _xxx_ has made another one of his predictions.

No, this is still a part of the same prediction that Albuquerque has in his sig. And yes, 1.1.2011 is the day we'll look at it (if we're still here and still have a working connection).

[london-boy]

Originally Posted by _xxx_

ROTFLMAO, no comment (and no, I'm not German at all)

I love german food! I went to Frankfurt and i've never eaten better meat in my life!!
[insert joke here]