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The same goes w/ NYC. I have been here for a while now and have met so many young girls following Sex in the City dream, which invariably turned out badly.
by bluekite2000 14y ago
The same goes w/ NYC. I have been here for a while now and have met so many young girls following Sex in the City dream, which invariably turned out badly.
- juan_juarez 14y agoMany people fail to realize that show was not intended to be educational.
- kafkaesque 14y agoShould we redirect them to Girls?
- donretag 14y agoSomeone actually did the math behind Carrie Bradshaw: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/carrie-bradshaws-budget-in-real-numbers/ http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/carrie-bradshaws-budget-in-re...
- jseliger 14y agoAgreed. I just moved here from Tucson, and there's virtually no way I'd be here if not for the fact that I'm living with a medical resident in an apartment subsidized by her hospital. Given a choice among SF, NYC, and Seattle, and I'd choose Seattle: It has much of what makes the first two desirable, but at 60% of the cost. BTW, to the extent that you want to make cities like SF and NYC more affordable, favor the removal of building height limitations and setbacks. The real problem in such cities is with supply, as Matt Yglesias writes in The Rent is Too Damn High and Ryan Avent writes in The Gated City. SF and NYC aren't expensive because of some natural law; they're expensive because of man-made laws, which can be changed. Don't yield to torpor!
- lawnchair_larry 14y agoHaving moved from SF to Seattle, I just want to say that Seattle is terrible, and you should warn everybody you know to stay away. ;)
- davmar 14y agoHaha. Why do you think so? Lets get a beer and I'll show you why it isn't totally awful. Some gems for sure.
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- aliston 14y agoSerious question -- did you have trouble adjusting to the lack of sunshine?
- jseliger 14y agoI've lived in Bellevue, WA, then Worcester, MA, then Seattle, WA, then Tucson, AZ, then New York, NY, and I've never had a problem with sun or its lack. Different people react differently, however, and I still a) went running most days, and b) really like the cultural / lifestyle aspects of living in cities. I prefer the Seattle experience of relatively temperate weather, year-round, to the Tucson experience of insane heat for about five months of the year. Obviously nowhere else in the U.S. is going to rival the weather experience of the CA coast.
- dr_ 14y agoNYC is a big place and its not all the same. One could, for example, live in Brooklyn, pay a more reasonable rent and be surrounded by interesting people all with access to great food and bars. I suppose you could stretch that a bit further to Queens as well. Manhattan itself is quickly changing into a business district. You go there to work, grab dinner or hit the theater, then leave.
- yolesaber 14y agoThis is by far the best way to live comfortably in NYC. People forget how diverse the city is. Everyone thinks that you just have to be in Manhattan. Yes if you are working for a startup in NYC it will be located in Manhattan (Etsy is an exception), but there's no real good reason to live there. It is a fantastic place to work and dine, that is for certain, but in terms of living it is overcrowded, overpriced, and quite noisy. In Brooklyn or Queens you can have plenty of room for much cheaper than Manhattan/SF/Seattle. There are one bedrooms in Astoria that start around $1200 and with a roommate you can easily be paying less than a grand each for a BIG place in a great part of the City. Almost all of the creative and intellectual activity in NYC comes from Brooklyn/Queens, whether its the rise of new and interesting publications (N+1, for example), art houses being opened, exhibitions being held, wild house shows or rooftoop parties and so on and so forth. It has a great vibe that I have yet to get from any other city. I remember being on a rooftop in Greenpoint with some friends, having a nighttime barbecue, and they had a marvelous view of Manhattan. I mentioned that it would be nice to live there and my friend just laughed, saying "The city looks so beautiful now. Why would you want to ruin it by living there?"
- joonix 14y agoWhat parts of Brooklyn? Isn't it hard to get to work in midtown if you live in Brooklyn? The "nice" parts of Brooklyn always seem just as expensive as Manhattan when I check.
- msellout 14y agoTry Bushwick. It's on the L train. And some parts of Jersey are a faster commute to midtown Manhattan than north Manhattan is.
- starpilot 14y agoEveryone forgets Chicago. In the US, it's the most important financial center outside of Manhattan and is the third place city in number of Michelin starred restaurants (fewer than SF; Seattle has none). Boeing moved their corporate HQ there from Seattle because of its financial prominence. It has a world class university in U. Chicago and excellent bus/rail transit across the metro area. But the Chicago area is seriously undervalued as "flyover country" for most people from the coasts.
- aioprisan 14y agofrom my experience there, it's simply too far from other places (vs Boston/NYC/DC area or) and weather is a lot harsher
- jmnickels 14y agoit's a 2 hour flight.
- jseliger 14y agoWhat's Chicago known for these days? When I think of Seattle, I think of music (grunge was big, and today there's still a lot of it), Amazon, Microsoft, tech stuff, and arts. When I think of SF I think of free-spirits, the 60s, and startups. When I think of New York I think of movies, finance, artists (especially writers), publishing, and fashion. When I think of Chicago, I think of. . . corruption? Commodities markets? I'm not saying this to be snarky or a coastal asshole or whatever. I'm saying it because I genuinely don't have much of an impression of Chicago from the popular culture, or from books, or from sites like HN.
- iradik 14y agoArchitecture to name one of many. Some of the best American architects built many buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers in Chicago. The Chicago skyline is a wondrous thing. It can't be compared.
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- Spooky23 14y agoNYC is different because you can live an urban lifestyle without living in Manhattan at significantly lower cost. You can do this by living in Brookyln or Queens or even Jersey. When the urban thing gets old, there are plenty of detached single family neighborhoods in the city, early 20th century inner suburbs, or you can flee to the suburbs. I've only been to California a couple of times to visit, but it seemed to me that everything is "newer" than your typical east coast city, and there's an immediate transition from urban environment to 1960+ suburbia.