Yup, this describes NYC pretty well. If you are in the HN crowd, and moved to a hood you consider desirable with a good commute to where our offices are.. You

Yup, this describes NYC pretty well. If you are in the HN crowd, and moved to a hood you consider desirable with a good commute to where our offices are.. You can have friends nearby if you make them after you move in and are happy with a social circle comprised of people almost entirely in the same field, with a few trust funders mixed in. If you live in an older hood like UWS/UES there will also be some old timers mixed in who bought/secured a lease in the 80s~90s and maybe from other fields. Or more often than not, they are lawyers and doctors or other high paying but not-quite banking/consulting/software. Growing up outside the city, my friends dads were, in no particular order - teacher, principal, engineer, auto mechanic, IT, roofer, etc.