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Not to mention paying for a studio apartment on a highschool dropout hourly wage

• coldtea 9y ago
  Depends what you consider a "studio apartment" to be. For most it's not some huge NY loft above Central Park or Soho, but an all-in-one, cramped, small space single room apartment that's usually the cheapest option, and is around 300-600sq feet.
  • theparanoid 9y ago
    Where I'm at that's about $1000/month plus health insurance. Minimum wage is $1700/month.
    • BenchRouter 9y ago
      In NY or SF a 300 sq. foot studio would be about $1800/month, at least. You could get cheaper, but you'd be far away from the actual city (at which point you might as well just live somewhere else).
      • creepydata 9y ago
        What do you consider NYC? $1800 a month can get you a two bedroom in Brooklyn.
        • nedwin 9y ago
          Wow, really? I had no idea it was so affordable. My rent is more than double in SF but figured it was a comparable CoL city to NYC/Brooklyn included.
          • creepydata 9y ago
            Yes, I have many friends (10ish maybe) who aren't natives but currently live in Brooklyn. Queens is affordable too (you can buy a small house for ~$300,000ish IIRC, I think in Rockaway Beach) but you're very far away from Manhattan. I had another friend who lives in Long Island City (Queens, close to Manhattan) but her rent was high IIRC. I'm unfamiliar with the rent in The Bronx. However NYC as a whole has high sales and income taxes though. Including City income tax. Brooklyn is where you live when you move to The City without a lot of money - like for grad school. Rent is (probably) higher in Park Slope or Williamsburg though which are more "desirable" areas of Brooklyn. I'm sure natives can chime in.
        • nedwin 9y ago
          Wow, really? I had no idea it was so affordable. My rent is more than double in SF but figured it was a comparable CoL city to NYC/Brooklyn included.
      • hellofunk 9y ago
        Living in a borough other than Manhattan is not the same as living "somewhere else", and 1800/month is certainly not the case if you consider all of NYC.
  • dzhiurgis 9y ago
    It's Amsterdam, so the size is more like 250 sq ft. That said I regret badly going to uni and wasting my time drinking with my buddies.
    • rhizome 9y ago
      "Nobody on their deathbed ever says I wish I hadn't drunk all that good champagne."
      • tonyedgecombe 9y ago
        Apart from the ones dying of liver disease in their forties.
        • rhizome 9y ago
          I'm sure it happens, but that's a lot of champagne.