NYC is also expensive. Spending 50% on rent for a 2BR. (That said, I elected to pay a little more to get a clean, modern place in a new building. A lot of NYC a

NYC is also expensive. Spending 50% on rent for a 2BR. (That said, I elected to pay a little more to get a clean, modern place in a new building. A lot of NYC apartments look like something out of 1980s Russia, only not as nice.)