Or just rent the apartment for < $8k/mo ($96k/yr). (And that’s for a new luxury building in a top neighborhood. Make a couple compromises and you can fairly eas

Or just rent the apartment for < $8k/mo ($96k/yr). (And that’s for a new luxury building in a top neighborhood. Make a couple compromises and you can fairly easily bring that down to $6k.) Yeah, living on an income of less than $500k (which is what the vast majority of people - including families - do, even in NYC) requires making a compromise here or there and not having the absolute best of absolutely everything. Shocker.