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No, wrong. It's not sooooo much expensive to live in NY unless you live in Manhattan along with bankers and media tycoons. In fact, most folks who work in Man

No, wrong. It's not sooooo much expensive to live in NY unless you live in Manhattan along with bankers and media tycoons. In fact, most folks who work in Manhattan still come from outer boroughs and suburbs like LI, Queens and Brooklyn where the cost of living, especially rent, is nowhere as crazy. In fact, until a decade ago, Manhattan wasn't seen as an ideal place to raise families and most middle-class folks lived outside the city.

thrownaway954 8y ago
And you know this cause you have family and friends that live in LI and commute to NYC for work everyday like I do? And just to prove you don't know what you are talking about, below are links to a cost of living calculator West Palm Beach Florida - 85K https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ Queens New York - 130K https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/
- tooltalk 8y ago
  I know so b/c I grew up and lived in NYC since 1990. It's somewhat laughable to hear someone who claims to know so much about the city where the median median income is only $55k making such absurd claims to justify NYPD cops' $150K salary. I personally don't have any problem with cops making that much money as long as the city is safe and they are not cheating the system. Having worked as a public servant at a less-offending NYC agency, however, the problem I see is that everyone is out to milk the system as much as possible and there seems to be almost little or no control over this (ie, wage inflation among "certain" class of public servants or opportunists).
  - zjaffee 8y ago
    Thank you, racist cops in NYC along side corrupt subway officials get to make competitive upper middle class wages, while public defenders and social workers get their budgets cut.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > below are links to a cost of living calculator For a family with two children. Divide $130k in half and you get a realistic $65k each before taxes. (The calculator has a tax line item.) Note, too, that this blends Astoria and Flushing. Friend of a friend is a single mom of three living in Jackson Heights on less than $65k. She commutes in by subway + LIRR or subway + ferry, using the time to consume audiobooks.
bobthepanda 8y ago
LI has crazy property tax. Most places in the outer boroughs in nice neighborhoods are still very expensive, and it can be quite the commute. NJ workers have to also pay NYC income tax in addition to NJ income tax. Having lived in NYC for the first 20+ years of my life, I was sad to have to relocate, but the finances are just so crazy.

thrownaway954 8y ago

And you know this cause you have family and friends that live in LI and commute to NYC for work everyday like I do? And just to prove you don't know what you are talking about, below are links to a cost of living calculator West Palm Beach Florida - 85K https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ Queens New York - 130K https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/

tooltalk 8y ago
I know so b/c I grew up and lived in NYC since 1990. It's somewhat laughable to hear someone who claims to know so much about the city where the median median income is only $55k making such absurd claims to justify NYPD cops' $150K salary. I personally don't have any problem with cops making that much money as long as the city is safe and they are not cheating the system. Having worked as a public servant at a less-offending NYC agency, however, the problem I see is that everyone is out to milk the system as much as possible and there seems to be almost little or no control over this (ie, wage inflation among "certain" class of public servants or opportunists).
- zjaffee 8y ago
  Thank you, racist cops in NYC along side corrupt subway officials get to make competitive upper middle class wages, while public defenders and social workers get their budgets cut.
JumpCrisscross 8y ago
> below are links to a cost of living calculator For a family with two children. Divide $130k in half and you get a realistic $65k each before taxes. (The calculator has a tax line item.) Note, too, that this blends Astoria and Flushing. Friend of a friend is a single mom of three living in Jackson Heights on less than $65k. She commutes in by subway + LIRR or subway + ferry, using the time to consume audiobooks.

bobthepanda 8y ago

LI has crazy property tax. Most places in the outer boroughs in nice neighborhoods are still very expensive, and it can be quite the commute. NJ workers have to also pay NYC income tax in addition to NJ income tax. Having lived in NYC for the first 20+ years of my life, I was sad to have to relocate, but the finances are just so crazy.