i go to new york

ok :D i webmailed it to you!

cool
also i am bringing all-dressed chips! and maybe ketchup chips? do you guys have ketchup chips, i don't remember

woah awesome! they are a mystery to me! no, we don't has ketchup chips (afaik)

discovery: 25 american dollars in my passport holder thing
awesome

that will buy you about half a slice of pizza at this point

haha new york
the thing is that the cdn dollar is pretty much at par with the US right now! so it's kind of exciting to me

i remember the days of going to canada and everything being such a bargain :(

july 26th, yo

this is happening may 29-june 1

should i come to new york early june

you mean in time to see Crystal Skull with me?

ooh!

well... i'm seeing it in advance but if it's good i'll want to see it again... is the ziegfield still rockin?

yes... and Indy is playing there!

You know they use an Italian projector that chops 3-4 minutes off the running time?

Isn't the Ziegfeld all digitial now/

yes everyone should come early june bc i will be out of school and probably unemployed and have lots of time for entertaining?

i went to new york.

those of you i met were A+++

t-minus a few hours

playing a show at the trash bar, btw, if anyone's around. w/fake fictions (n/a's band).

killer!

we play at 11pm, they play at 12am, btw

i have another engagement to attend :(

wish i had been in new york tonight
i wouldve worn my cowboy boots
and been there with evryone

sorry I couldn't make it man, had cards-mets tix and the game wuz epic (pujols home run in the 14th)

hope it was fun

I also was doing the 14th-inning stretch

Hey guys, is $47,000 p.a. a comfortable amount to live on in NYC? My standards are low but I would rather not continue to live like a grad student.

Doable.

i'm a grad student living on less. it's more than i've ever made here. you'll be totally fine.

excellent, thanks. can I afford to get a 1 bedroom place or will I need a room-mate?

(I'm a grad student now but won't be if I get the job, which is a postdoc at Columbia)

you could probably get a 1br if you don't insist on living in manhattan.

cool. i hate other people so that is good news.

right on.

ya thats like $1300/mo in rent right? you can def get a bk apt for that much if u start looking early/hire a broker

even cheaper in astoria

and do not hire a broker.

lol

actually i bet columbia has some kind of housing service assistance bullshit

they do - ask nabisco!

Thanks guys. I was slightly concerned because 47 is like 10 grand less than most of the other jobs I'm applying for, and they're in buttfuck, not manhattan.

real estate prices should be dropping any minute now, right?

note I will be renting not buying if that makes any difference. i have zero us credit history and, if they did due diligence they would discover a student loan in british pounds which is probably about $700 billion dollars and which I have paid of £0 in five years.

Other than in the most desirable areas, I've found that landlords aren't usually as strict about credit history as they claim to be. If you're renting somewhere that a person with your salary can afford, you're not competing with a lot of people with perfect credit scores.

When we looked a couple of years ago a lot of landlords/agents were just like "Wow you both have real jobs please sign here."

the credit history was more "banks will laugh at me if I try to get a mortgage" than landlords will hate me.

landlords love me!

i think anyone would be laughed at if they tried to get a mortgage at this point! although you may be well within your rights to laugh at the bank, too!!

haha thanking u. i will doubtless be back with more questions when I am in town for interviews in the new year if this works out.

excellent, thanks. can I afford to get a 1 bedroom place

not that you wouldn't be able to find much cheaper, but the average rent for 1-bd apts in manhattan is $2700/mo. is columbia gonna provide you with housing? i vaguely remember them not having too much to go around for grad students, tho i'm sure they've expanded at least a little.

If I get the job then I won't be a grad student, so I'd be pretty much on my own looking for accommodation. This is fine with me because, having lived in university accommodation for more years than not in the last decade, I am through with that. I am happy to commute (reading time) so I'm not too bothered about being in Manhattan. My supervisor lived in Harlem when he was a postdoc there and says that is the place to go, but this was six years ago and I'm not sure I entirely trust him (he is French Canadian, you see).

I was slightly concerned because 47 is like 10 grand less than most of the other jobs I'm applying for

― caek, Monday, September 29, 2008 1:02 AM (12 hours ago)

1/3 of that 47 goes to uncle sam :(

I will tell him, "no taxation without representation". That should go over well.