I was just in Stamford last weekend helping my gf find a place there. We both currently live in NYC right now. First off, rents in Stamford are insane. Decent

I was just in Stamford last weekend helping my gf find a place there. We both currently live in NYC right now. First off, rents in Stamford are insane. Decent 1-bedrooms currently rent for over 2 grand (which is what I pay in Manhattan). Granted you get 200 more square feet and a parking spot, this is still a large increase over what rents were in Stamford in 07 (about 500 bucks cheaper). The real-estate agents we spoke to claimed that RBS and UBS were hiring like gangbusters and this was pulling rents higher. Most of the high end apartments we say had a shuttle service to the Metro North station. It seems there are a lot of folks who live in Stamford and who commute to Manhattan.