i go to new york

thanks guys.

laurel otm re the importance of getting boots on the ground. hopefully I will be passing through in January again, at which time I will tour the city of new york.

um i accidentally pulled a first interview for job in new york (i applied thinking oh they won't call me anyway i'm no good) but now i don't want them to hire me because then i have to debate whether i want to move to new york and i really don't want to be one of YOU PEOPLE. also i will probably be making . . . like 47k (if i get hired, which is unlikely). so i better act like a tard in the interview so i can avoid this serious dilemma. i can do that without even trying!

do you want to hang out?

the interview is in dc

what's the job?

bronx public defender!!!!!!!!!

but i really might prefer to go somewhere smaller and cheaper so i'm not going to cry if they don't like me, i guess that's good

that's way cool tho good luck

i say this every time, but jersey city is affordable and about the same in commute time as Queens. $1250 to $1300 gets you a decent, roomy one bedroom by yerself; 1100 to 1000 would be a reasonable share and you could probably go lower and rough it.

i know what you mean but above $1000 sounds insane to me because i live in ohio (lol) and i could rent two apartments for that! but ohio is zzzz anyway. i'll see what happens. may not even have to think about this 2+ weeks from now!

Well you won't have to maintain a car you know

unless you are a superstar dj/foodie and live in queens

i don't maintain a car now either though

i hate foodies

Right, but other jobs may require you to live in the lolburbs

? i am applying to jobs in several other cities that are not new york, not any in suburbs

Any neighborhood that was sold as "up and coming" last year is probably not a place you want to move right now.

oooh careful w/ public offices. my friend was interviewing w/ queens d.a. office for several months and then they were like 'oh yeah, btw, we don't actually have budget approval to hire anyone right now! lolz!'

like anyone does

this was before things got really crazy economically. i mean, they were bad, but not as bad as now. also, why waste time/resources with 3 or 4 interviews if you can't do anything about it?

It's good to be a foodie in NYC; it's real pig in shit territory.

yeah i know about the public offices having no money thing

$1300 to live alone is beyond unreasonable to me, if my rent went above $1000 it would be like 50% of my take-home. But on $47,000 you could probably do it. Also fuck you to whomever thinks anything below $1000 for a share is "roughing it". What??

yeah seriously. my rent just went up another $50 and i'm still WELL below $1000 for a share with awesome roommates and a backyard.

I like how $47,000 has become the canonical salary on this thread.

Also, lol exchange rate. If it keeps going like this even the low Columbia salary will allow me to eat into GBP student loan.

i would just be sad because maybe in other states i would have that much money left AFTER paying rent because the pay would be higher and the rent would be far lower but, again, this could all be purely hypothetical. i'm also allergic to roommates! also xpost i think it's more like $48,500 or something but whatever

$47k has become the cannonical salary because that's what you and harbl said you'd probably make. You started it.

I know! I like that it has become the canonical salary!

Also fuck you to whomever thinks anything below i000 for a share is "roughing it".

I've seen seven hundred dollar a month apartments in Jersey City that involve sharing one bathroom with four people along with a bedroom that's twelve by twelve with a window facing a wall. And much worse in New York. I'm not saying that's the only option, but it takes work to find something comfortable for under a grand a month in the outlying NY area and A LOT of work or luck to find something liveable, comfortable and solo for under a grand a month. You've got to sacrifice something: privacy, light, six floor walk up, location...

47K is like 14 euros now, right?

47 000 U.S. dollars = 26 449.0715 British pounds

GIVE

I will live with you in Jersey City, forks

I stumbled into a not-much-more-than-a-grand rent-stabilized solo place in Kensington, w/ a pool on the roof. (Craigslist)

It's not that much work, forks. I'm in my weirdest situation ever right now with the loft thing, but the whole time I lived in Crown Heights my rent was $600-650 with one roommate and so much space we had OUR OWN living rooms. A judicious exploration of craigslist shares will reward you.

And 12 x 12' is a large bedroom for most parts of the metro area, not just apartments you have to "sacrifice" for.

I mean congratulations, you can afford whatever you pay (albeit as a couple, if I recall) and I'm glad you like it there. But those of us with one income below $45k aren't living in the streets in poverty, or trudging up 5 flights of stairs to our cold, ashy garrets.

Right now two of us are technically living on the equivalent of well under double that salary, and we're ok.

my chick is living on like $10 a year and shes doing ok

Right now two of us are technically living on the equivalent of well under double that salary, and we're ok.

in two places?

Well no. But you do need more space/stuff/etc. for two people than one even if it's less than double.

If you guys can get TransitCheck or whatever you call it DO IT.

I'm hardly captain moneybags here, Laurel; I'm paying under a grand myself, but my girl owns the apartment we live in. I'm saying that if 1) you're unwilling to pay more than a grand for your rent and 2)if you want to live by yourself in New York or outlying areas it requires much patience and work and luck. Would you argue that?

And if I seem picky about this, it's cuz people treat JC like it's upstate or the gulag when it's about as far away from midtown as Brooklyn is. I used to be in the same boat, but having followed my girl out here I'm of a different mind. Worst thing is not being able to ever cab it.

earlier you said "1100 to 1000 would be a reasonable share and you could probably go lower and rough it." what laurel and others are saying is that you can go well below 1000 and not be roughing it, as i am now, and i found my apartment in about a week.

you're living by yourself?

no, i was referring to your comment about shares...

btw my new york job interview was rly awkward and shitty (not entirely my fault) so i think i'm not going here. it's ok, i'm going to be rich somewhere else like milwaukee or baltimore. thx 4 ur help

i go to new york (actually i'm in new york!) i want to see ppl!

what kind of people? noisers sort of reclusive, lately?

re: upthread, i may not go to new york :((((((

columbia is only offering one rather than ten positions in the job i am applying for this year because they lost $2bn on the markets so far this year. no joke.

i hear a lot of colleges are sort of in the same boat