It matters, but there are still plenty of affordable parts of NYC with an easy commute to Manhattan’s office districts. Living in Manhattan has meant $4000 shoe

It matters, but there are still plenty of affordable parts of NYC with an easy commute to Manhattan’s office districts. Living in Manhattan has meant $4000 shoebox apartment for years now; you can find nice, spacious apartments in Brooklyn, right on the subway, for a whole lot less than the Manhattan median. The subway is pretty fast, it runs 24 hours a day, and it gets you anywhere you’d want to go within the city. Bikeshare deals with the corner cases where a trip between two nearby-ish neighborhoods doesn’t have a good subway connection. The only reason I’d ever drive in New York is if I got a U-Haul for moving.