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You know who says NYC is awesome? People who already live there. Good luck finding a place to live in the city. Your options: room with four other people in
by sachinag 17y ago
You know who says NYC is awesome? People who already live there. Good luck finding a place to live in the city. Your options: room with four other people in a two bedroom or have insanely rich parents who can co-sign a lease with you.
Of course, I disagree wholeheartedly with Thomas on Chicago unless you're bootstrapping. If you don't want to do SV, Boston and LA (especially now with Jason's Open Angel Forum events) are pretty good options.
- aditya 17y agoThis is only partially true. a 1br in SoMA is the same rent as a 1br in most of Manhattan, but you possibly get lesser space in Manhattan, so then you move out to brooklyn if you want more space. Also, DUMBO in Brooklyn is fairly easily accessible and is becoming quite a startup hub. NYC seems expensive, but if you look hard enough you can find good deals anywhere.
- warfangle 17y agoVery true. Don't be afraid to look outside of the manhattan/williamsburg/dumbo/long island city areas, either. Most people who think that NYC is incredibly expensive (I've even gotten this from folks who live in La Crescenta, CA) haven't bothered to explore beyond Manhattan.
- wglb 17y agoThere is a VC community in Chicago, but not nearly so extensive as SV.
- fortes 17y agoThe thing about NYC is that the high end (and much of Manhattan) is indeed incredibly expensive. And if you don't know NYC, you think that's all that's out there. But New York is huge and you can find a little bit of everything. Brooklyn alone is larger than most large cities, with 2.5 million people (over half the size of metro SF, and about the same as metro Pittsburgh). Everything gets much, much cheaper when you leave the ultra-density of Manhattan. It's like any other city center, just scaled way up.
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