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>I know that housing is very expensive It is, but don't have to live in the city to work in the city. It's extremely common to live in cheaper areas near NYC a

• gautamnarula 8y ago
  In this sense, I find NYC to be more affordable than the bay area. The better public transit means it's a lot more viable to live in neighborhoods with cheaper housing and commute to work than it is in SF.
• chatmasta 8y ago
  That’s a three hour commute round trip, and much of it will be standing in a sweaty subway carriage with no room to even move your arms.
  • yazan94 8y ago
    How long you spend in the subway is entirely based on where you live in relation to Manhattan and where your office in Manhattan is. If you live in Brooklyn or Queens, you don't have many options outside of the subway. If you live farther out in Long Island, upstate NY, CT, or NJ you would take the train which often (but not always, it depends on which train you take) has considerably more elbow room. And if you take a train from those places, you can transfer to a subway and get to almost anywhere in Manhattan within 30 min. Yes this is a long commute, but while $2k will barely cover rent of a tiny studio with a roommate in Manhattan, $2k elsewhere can cover the rent + utilities for a 3 bedroom apartment but with a 90 min commute each direction. I think its fair to say that COL is inversely related to your distance to Manhattan
• hapless 8y ago
  Perhaps counter-intuitively, the suburbs of NYC are much more expensive than the outer boroughs. You can rent an apartment in Queens or the Bronx for _half_ as much as Westchester or Long Island, due to horrifying zoning restrictions on multifamily housing.